1 00:00:03,140 --> 00:00:07,640 So let's wrap up our time here together in this course. 2 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,950 Some things I want you to take away, think about, 3 00:00:10,950 --> 00:00:14,740 and put on your to‑do list, first of all, 4 00:00:14,740 --> 00:00:20,450 you have to understand and recognize and treat PowerShell as a foreign language. 5 00:00:20,450 --> 00:00:24,080 Learning PowerShell is no different than having to learn a 6 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:28,240 language like Chinese or Hungarian or Swedish. 7 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:33,120 You have to practice it every day, you have to expose yourself to it, 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,740 you need to read about it, you need to use it. 9 00:00:36,740 --> 00:00:40,200 That's the only way that you will be able to master PowerShell. 10 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,830 I have been using, or if you will, speaking PowerShell since 2006, 11 00:00:44,830 --> 00:00:47,300 for almost 15 years as I record this course. 12 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:51,340 So for me, I don't even have to think about it anymore. 13 00:00:51,340 --> 00:00:53,500 If you happen to speak a foreign language, 14 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:54,540 think about it, 15 00:00:54,540 --> 00:00:58,000 think about how it was when you first started learning a 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,180 language or even a programming language, 17 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:03,930 like maybe you learned VBScript or Python or Ruby, 18 00:01:03,930 --> 00:01:06,440 remember how much you struggled to get started. 19 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,530 But once you get over that initial hurdle and start 20 00:01:09,530 --> 00:01:12,900 seeing how things go together, a lot of it begins to click, 21 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:15,400 and then you realize, oh, I got this, I understand, 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,560 I can now speak this language, and because I can speak it, 23 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,540 I can get a lot of my work done. 24 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:26,310 Part of the PowerShell paradigm is objects and objects in the pipeline. 25 00:01:26,310 --> 00:01:28,240 Whenever you're working in PowerShell, 26 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,850 always realize that what you're working with are objects. 27 00:01:31,850 --> 00:01:35,160 You're running a command, it's writing object to the pipeline. 28 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,290 You're selecting properties of an object, 29 00:01:37,290 --> 00:01:39,100 you're grouping objects, you're sorting, 30 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:43,500 you're filtering with Where object, you're always working with objects. 31 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:45,600 And as I showed you in some of the demonstrations, 32 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,540 you can also create your own objects. 33 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:51,330 You don't have to rely on PowerShell to give you what you need, 34 00:01:51,330 --> 00:01:54,540 you can tell PowerShell, this is what I need. 35 00:01:54,540 --> 00:01:56,450 Going forward, there's more to PowerShell, 36 00:01:56,450 --> 00:01:56,920 of course, 37 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,470 another big step for you to learn is all about 38 00:02:00,470 --> 00:02:02,630 PowerShell's remoting and remote management. 39 00:02:02,630 --> 00:02:04,920 So these would be things like using SSH, 40 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,790 and remote sessions, and using the cim cmdlets. 41 00:02:08,790 --> 00:02:12,820 These are really key components because PowerShell is a management engine, 42 00:02:12,820 --> 00:02:15,870 and so you want to be able to manage, not only one server, 43 00:02:15,870 --> 00:02:21,040 but maybe 1000 servers, not 1 mailbox, but 500 mailboxes. 44 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,450 You always want to be thinking, 45 00:02:22,450 --> 00:02:28,140 how can I use PowerShell to do more and to do lots of things all at once? 46 00:02:28,140 --> 00:02:32,550 And all of this is really going to lay the foundation for PowerShell scripting. 47 00:02:32,550 --> 00:02:35,740 The more that you run commands in the console and 48 00:02:35,740 --> 00:02:38,430 understand how the console works, and how commands work, 49 00:02:38,430 --> 00:02:39,960 and how the pipeline works, 50 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,540 and a lot of things that we've covered in this course, 51 00:02:42,540 --> 00:02:45,910 all of that will make you a better PowerShell scripter. 52 00:02:45,910 --> 00:02:48,790 If you can't run a command from the PowerShell prompt, 53 00:02:48,790 --> 00:02:52,530 you will never be able to create a script or function around it, 54 00:02:52,530 --> 00:02:57,760 so you have to practice and learn the PowerShell language and understand the 55 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:03,040 paradigm in order for you to be a great PowerShell scripter. 56 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,540 And then finally, again, I'm going to urge you to read, 57 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:10,640 read blogs, read social media tweets, go to conferences, 58 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:14,740 expose yourself to PowerShell and to all the things that it can do, 59 00:03:14,740 --> 00:03:17,090 imagine what PowerShell is doing. 60 00:03:17,090 --> 00:03:20,170 I have found that people who can visualize what PowerShell is 61 00:03:20,170 --> 00:03:24,650 doing in the pipeline have an easier time in writing PowerShell 62 00:03:24,650 --> 00:03:27,370 commands or trying to figure out, hey, how come this doesn't work? 63 00:03:27,370 --> 00:03:31,510 Because they can visualize and imagine what PowerShell is doing. 64 00:03:31,510 --> 00:03:36,960 So read about something, imagine, okay, I need to do this particular task, 65 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,060 how would I do it? 66 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:39,080 Then try it out. 67 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,240 If it doesn't work, no big deal. 68 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,240 Read the error message, or the warning, or whatever you get back, 69 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:46,730 repeat, revise. 70 00:03:46,730 --> 00:03:50,280 The more that you do this, the easier it will become. 71 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,750 And then you'll wonder, why did I wait so long to learn PowerShell? 72 00:03:54,750 --> 00:03:58,790 I hear that all the time from people who they get over that hurdle and go, 73 00:03:58,790 --> 00:04:00,140 oh, I get it now. 74 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:05,740 This makes sense to me, and I want you to get to that point as well. 75 00:04:05,740 --> 00:04:08,530 Thank you so much for spending some time watching this course. 76 00:04:08,530 --> 00:04:11,090 If you go to a conference and I'm speaking that you'll come up 77 00:04:11,090 --> 00:04:14,070 and let me know what you thought about it or any of the material 78 00:04:14,070 --> 00:04:16,840 in the library here at Pluralsight. 79 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:17,820 Keep plugging at it. 80 00:04:17,820 --> 00:04:19,230 It will get easier. 81 00:04:19,230 --> 00:04:25,000 And I hopefully will catch you in another course later on down the road. Thanks for watching.