A big part of being successful with PowerShell is
developing good patterns and practices.
You need to learn the process of building a PowerShell solution.
Don't focus on learning the individual commands.
PowerShell is all about how you put the different pieces together,
and that's why you need the help content.
This means on new installs,
you might want to update help or probably really will need to update help,
like I showed you in the demo.
In a corporate environment,
you might want to develop a process to deploy help content using Save‑Help.
Remember that help content for PowerShell 7.0 is different
than the help for Windows PowerShell.
Yeah, many of the commands are the same,
but a command in PowerShell 7.0 might have new parameters
that don't exist in Windows PowerShell.
And don't try to update help everywhere.
Remember, you only need updated help where you are working,
typically your desktop.
Now I think you'll find the Help function much easier to use
from the console than the Get‑Help function,
primarily because of that paging that you saw.
Can't stress enough, don't neglect to look at the About topics.
There's a huge amount of information waiting for you.
Yeah, I'd love you to buy books to learn in detail,
but you certainly can't beat free.
Don't struggle trying to figure out how to use arrays in PowerShell.
Read the help topic about_Arrays.
Sure, you may want more information,
but at least you'll have a baseline of knowledge and be better prepared to ask
questions about the help content that you have already read.
And it should come as no surprise to you that you need
to be reading help all the time.
I've stressed this repeatedly.
Even for commands you think you know.
Coming up, I'll show you how to get the most out of that content,
but if you never look at it, you'll never learn it.
Don't try to find code samples from Google to blindly run.
Learn the commands and concepts so that you can figure
out what you have to do on your own.
Now it may seem like that takes longer, but in the long run,
you'll be far ahead of the copy and paste PowerShell users.
I strongly suggest to beginners find a new command or
help topic to read about every day.
I'm a huge believer in the teach a person to fish approach.
Reading and using help in PowerShell is a huge part of that process.
For now, go get your PowerShell help updated.
Coming up,
I'll teach you how to understand and get the most out
of the help content you're reading. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in a little bit.