• PowerShell 7
  • Install it through the MSI on its GitHub releases page, not through winget. Installing PowerShell 7 specifically, from winget can cause PowerShell profile permissions errors that are extremely hard to troubleshoot.
• VSCode
  • Install it from winget via Command Prompt or PowerShell via winget install Microsoft.VisualStudioCode -h
  • Use this instead of the deprecated PowerShell ISE
  • Here are some YouTube videos on using VSCode for PowerShell
    • Optimizing Visual Studio Code for Powershell Development by Justin Grote
    • Using Visual Studio Code as Your Default PowerShell Editor by Tyler Leonhardt
• Windows Terminal
  • Use this so you can have multiple shell tabs on the same window and for different languages (Command Prompt, Python, PowerShell 5, PowerShell 7, etc.)
  • Install it from winget via Command Prompt or PowerShell via winget install Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -h
  • Check out its launch presentation here

1. Work through PowerShell in a Month of Lunches book
2. Work through PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches book
3. Work through The PowerShell Practice Primer
4. Watch Don Jones' Toolmaking Presentation
   • Don Jones Toolmaking Part 1 3
   • Don Jones Toolmaking Part 2 3
   • Don Jones Toolmaking Part 3 3
5. Work through The PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking Book

• PowerShell Style Guide
• PowerShell Deep Dives
• PowerShell Reference
• Deep Dive into PowerShell's Core Building Blocks
• PowerShell Strategies
• Sample Code
• Adam the Automator Tutorials

DevOps Collective Books, which are all free, especially:

• The Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas
• The Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling

PowerShell Conference Books

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Modern IT Automation with PowerShell - First Edition

I highly recommend the PowerShell.org and the PowerShell Conference EU YouTube Channels. They have lots of useful content for all experience levels, from beginner to expert. All of the below videos are from those channels.

• IDE
  • Using Visual Studio Code as your Default PowerShell Editor
  • Optimizing Visual Studio Code for PowerShell, 2023 Edition
• Best Practices
  • Writing Award Winning PowerShell Functions and Script Modules by Mike Robbins
• Parameters
  • Become a parameter ninja by James O'Neill
  • Parameter Binding & Type Conversion by Friedrich Weinmann
    • ScriptTransformation Attribute
• Pipeline
  • Enter the Pipeline by Friedrich Weinmann
    • This article is a bit easier to follow.
• Error Handling
  • When bad things happen to good scripts. Error handling in PS
• Debugging
  • Become a PowerShell Debugging Ninja by Kirk Munro
• Module Creation
  • ModuleBuilder Module
• RestAPI
  • From API to usable PowerShell module by James O'Neill
  • AutoRest: The Module Generator by Anthony Howell
• Classes
  • Developing with PowerShell Classes: Here be Dragons by Brandon Olin
• Speed Optimization
  • High-Intensity Scripting: Revisiting Speed Optimizations with PowerShell 7

• Microsoft Graph++
  • User-friendly wrapper around the auto-generated PowerShell Graph SDK commands to make them follow PowerShell best practices
  • Demo Talk
• ImportExcel
  • Create, Import, Edit, and Export Excel spreadsheets with PowerShell
  • Demo Talk
  • VSCode Snippets
• Profiler
  • Script, ScriptBlock and module performance profiler for PowerShell 5, and PowerShell 7 that works in Windows, Linux and MacOS.
  • Demo Talk
• PSFramework
  • The best solution for PowerShell logging and so much more
  • Demo Talk
  • Documentation (Yes it is spotty in places)
• PlatyPS
  • Create Markdown help from comment-based help
  • Create updateable help (MAML format) from those Markdown files
  • Check out these articles on how to format those Markdown files:
    • Schema
    • Markdown best practices
    • PowerShell-Docs style guide
    • Editorial checklist

• Mike F. Robbins
• PDQ
• PowerShell.org
• The Lonely Administrator

• PDQ - PowerShell Thread
• PowerShell
• WinAdmins - PowerShell Thread

PowerShell Podcast