Thank you for providing an easy-to-understand tutorial with great examples. Like other commentors here I've looked at other sources to learn basic PS and this was by far the easiest to understand.

I'm not a admin. I don't even work in IT. I just wanted to learn Powershell. I watched 30 mins each of 2 other video tutorials that claimed to be tutorials but were basically guys showing off how good they were in Powershell. I spent an hour and 3 commands were shown and not really explained. But this video here....15 mins in and I have learned enough to continue learning on my own if I had to and there is still like 15 more mins of video. This video paints a very clear picture. And I am having fun now rather than looking at "PS C:\> " and always having to copy paste something there I got from the internet. No more. I will learn this. This made it easy. Somebody get him a fruit basket...NOW!!...No?? I'm sorry bro....I couldn't get you a fruit basket. You totally deserve one though. In a nice basket. The basket matters. I liked the video though. Theres that at least. Thanks for posting this. Schooling mofo's since 2016

Update! Microsoft changed the process name to msedge :( Sorry. So now you want to do: $zebra = Get-Process msedge

My company pays for CBT nuggets, I spent 2 hours on their intro to powershell course the other day, you taught me more in 20 minutes than I learned in those 2 hours...great job!

Man, this is a GREAT introductory video. I watched it a couple of times to really let it sink in. THANKS!!!

I dont normally leave comments, but this is a top tier intro. Thanks!

absolutely great video. I am scared of scripting but the way you are explaining it's helping. cheers. Great job.

If only I had found this before I wasted money on a udemy course. Learned more in the first ten minutes than I did with paid content. Well done!

First time trying to learn Powershell and your video was the perfect beginners guide. You've really explained things in the simplest form that's non intimidating to a beginner that finds Powershell overwhelming. Thank you for posting.

This is great stuff, this all makes sense to me now have checked out others training and yours is so much better g

Incredibly helpful. Before moving on to your next tutorial, just wanted to say thanks a lot for putting this together.

10 minutes in...and feeling happy, intrigued. This video Helps! Thank You.

Great video. I've been running scared of PowerShell for a while now but you not only make it easy, you make it very interesting. Can't wait to finish the whole series

5 years old and probably heavily outdated this series has still helped me get on the right direction of what im trying to do. Even if its several forks in the road ahead. It helps me start

Shane , Hopefully you read this . I've never thought i could find a teacher on KZfaq like Corey who explains everything as simple meanwhile comprehensive as possible. I've watched couple other videos about shell and command line but you are the best . I just felt to write here and say "Thank you " . God bless you

Great video Shane! It's a very information-rich (read "useful") video. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. Thanks!

This is quite possibly the best web tutorial I've ever used. Hits at a perfect level for a PowerShell newbie, and gives all the top level tools you need to get started. I'd give it ten thumbs up if I could.

That was very informative, look forward to Part 2 once I play with this for a day or so. Thank you.....

As a System Admin,....this is one of the few things that I havent become proficient at. You've made it extremely easy for me. Thanks.

Really enjoyed this video, certainly gonna watch them all. Thanks for making it!

dude you are great at explaining...

Great tutorial Shane! I will definitely watch video 2 tomorrow :) I never took the time to learn PowerShell and mainly focused on learning more things about Networking and Cisco, but I'm now seeing others at work do bunch of useful things on powershell. It's insane how much time we have been saving at work since some of my colleagues have been making scripts on powershell. Powershell is a very powerful tool.

Most of the powershell videos on KZfaq right now are just people explaining for an hour how great powershell is. This video, however, actually taught me something

Excellent job Shane. I've been messing around with Powershell, learning by looking at other people's scripts. Finally decided I should actually learn what I was doing. Your intro got me off to a great start. Looking forward to the next one.

This was a great start, I am going to watch it all and be ready for questions please. I am going to practice it and will come back with questions for the whole series. Thanks a lot

Thanks for the lesson. complete newbie here trying to learn PowerShell, was given a task to build a script to start and stop multiple services on remote machines, to pull from a list...hoping your lessons will give me a good place to learn as I'm about as green as a young shoot in grove amongst a aged forest. Thanks again!

Thanks Shane. I usually gloss over when learning this material but you kept it concise and interesting. Looking forward to the rest of the video series.

Very informative video, I plan to keep watching and learning. As a student in Information Technology, I can say you made much more sense in 27 minutes than a whole semester at school. Thank you!

Phenomenal video! I'm in final year of high school and attempting to get my bearings together. I took IT as one of my subjects but wasn't as interested due to the fact that it focused mainly on theory that I simply memorised rather than understand. However, a week ago, I out of sheer boredom got into coding! I started with learning html and css because I had an interest in website making and just created one on vscode. And then I was HOOKED. Fell into a reddit rabbit hole looking for ways to prepare for my upcoming IT degree course I'm taking and ended up here! Currently learning python alongside powershell and this video really got me hyped up! Thank you so much for this!

I am subbing an IT class today and my daughter is a programmer, so I found your video very helpful. I learned a lot. Thanks!

Thank you. One of the job I applied for listing it so I google it and here I am. I knew nothing about PowerShell prior to this video and now I do, thank you much. The job no longer available but I am sure gaining a skill to show on my resume. Keep up the great work. Society need more people like yourself sir. Happy New Year!

Great video Shane, very helpful. Thanks for sharing. Always wanted to learn Powershell, but kept putting it off. Well done.

Great video, thank you for sharing the knowledge.

Dude, I'm in school for server administration right now. All I can say is, THANK YOU.

This was about 97 times easier to follow than pretty much any other Powershell "tutorial" I've found so far. Cudos Shane, and thank you!

I never could imagine myself making the effort I've been making to learn PowerShell, Thank you for making it so much easier.

Man this guy taught me so much in a 27 minute video that my prof failed to teach me in a 4 month semester. THANK YOU SO MUCH

Shane, it’s been a while since I’ve seen you! You should know your videos helped me create power apps and get better at my job - that’s an understatement. Now i searched to learn more on powershell and here you are. It’s so comforting and motivating! Thank you for giving your knowledge freely, it is something we should all emulate. #teachwhatyouknow

You sir have earned a subscriber. The more I learn about power-shell the more I like it!

I've loved the simplicity of your video because I tried to follow others who were too technical (complicated). So thanks !

Great explanation for those who are new to scripting. I'm more of a unix shell scripter, but this is a really good intro into PowerShell. Great job!

What an amazing tutorial. You made it real fun. Can't wait to watch Video 2. Thank you for posting this !

2 year old video so not quite sure if ill get a response but truly a great introuduction, ill be re watching this video until it sinks in but your explanation definitely makes it easy to follow along, subbed!

Extremely helpful, thanks

Thanks for doing this series, youtube suggested i watch you and its looking like i will be following this course. From someone who knows about command prompt and linux terminal but has never looked at powershell this has really helped me to learn more on the subject. Thanks again.

Thanks, man. This is great stuff. Never knew the power of powershell. Really appreciate it. I'm going through all the vids for this series.

Ok I literally know how my current trainee feels regarding me teaching her advanced Excel features. I think my brain is oozing out of my ears and I feel like an idiot. Lol. God love you for creating this! Thank you for being very thorough and specific! I can't wait until I absorb all you have covered. It will help our admin team immensely ❤️

thanks for the vid. Needed to run admin to create powershell directory. Couldnt figure why it didnt work until now. Cheers

I am a complete beginner just starting with Powershell and your video has helped me so much! Great work Shane.

outstanding mate, excellent stuff, your way of explaining things draws you in, i normally pass out after 5 minutes of these but this is the way to do it, thank you for this.

Very brilliantly explained PowerShell. I was always intimidated by CMD/PowerShell. But you made it very easy to understand. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Well done.! P.s. - I never leave any comments for any body. The person has to be very deserving to get my comments.

Great video, I've never ever done any firm of scripting but this was interesting. I even switched the colours to black/green hacker style as recommended :-) Thanks.

Great intro Shane. I have been working with Config Manager for years and have always cowered away from PowerShell. I know I have to face it head on and this tutorial was the perfect start! Thank You! Can't wait to start Part 2!

Thank you, your basic examples were perfect! I know SQUAT about PowerShell. However that start-transcript is a great saved me a lot of old school note taking . . . . Thank you for taking the time to create these videos.... looking forward to video 2

Ok... everytime I want to learn Azure, the powershell scares me .. THANK YOU for this video, I am starting to feel ok about the powershell. I heard you that there is also an Azure intro... I am so glad. I will now watch all your videos on this topic. You are amazing teacher, not just on the subject but also on how to present it to the people who are shy/scared towards it! 👏🏼👏🏼

This is magical, thank you!

Thanks for this Shane - never understood what a Method was until you described and demonstrated! Great vid

This was exactly what I needed to just dive in. Excellent info. Perfect pace. Thanks 👍

This is the best powershell learning material I've come across. On to video 2...

it's a nice tutorial, thanks for sharing and thanks for your time :D

Finally, a well produced video with good sound and content with an easy to understand instructor

Thank you for this Shane - good job and well explained.

Thanks for your help :D I'm going to see the next videos soon

"A lot of people would like to kill Microsoft Edge permanently." - Sick burn dude.

thanks, great video. I'm currently trying to teach myself Powershell for my internship and this video is a great help!

Really great video, Thanks! Yes always run as an administrator! I ran into so many problems before I learnt this!

BRAVO!! Excellent class.

great video m8. Could you make a video on Powershell for citrix Xendesktop administration please.....

Thanks Shane, I enjoyed the video. You did a good job explaining things. Can't wait to move on to Video 2 in this series

Good stuff @Shane, appreciate you spending time on this basic PS jargon!!!

You sir just gained another subscriber.

I noticed that: Get-service -DisplayName "*network*" doesn't need the quotation marks.

Thank you, Shane, I learned more about Powershell in this tutorial then I learned from anymore that talks about Powershell at my job. Thank you.

Best PoSh video I've seen to date. Finally one that is succint and covers stuff that is *actually useful*!

i hope this channel is still active beause this is amazing

Nice Video for Beginner.

Thank you man. This is awesome. I am working on creating automated processes for client device services. This is a very good start. I took a lot of good notes and I feel way more comfortable than I did before I came to this tutorial. Kudos.

Thanks Shane, I was looking for an intro to Powershell and I think you did a great job plus I really enjoyed your presentation and look forward to next chapters !

Great explanation

It would be hard to create a better introduction to PowerShell. Many Thanks.

Now I see why this video has so many views. It is a great and smooth entry into PowerShell for beginners. Keep it up!

Hi Shane, I'm a student currently learning about powershell in my operating system course. This was a great way to get into the basics. Looking forward to the next videos. Cheers!

As a Windows SysAdmin I've been avoiding Powershell for years. If I need to drop into it I usually Google the needed script, drop it in, do what i need to do, get out and never speak of it again. I'm genuinely curious as to why Microsoft decided to go back to the old DOS (I'm old enough to have grown up using DOS) days of a Command Line like engine to do simple and advanced Admin tasks that they already had years of GUI development doing the exact same things. Was it because of the rise of Linux and their command line admin shenanigans or trying to lower their security footprint with all the GUI tools or both? I can see the need for certain things, but many of those complex tasks could have been done in other ways with other scripting tools already in existence or vendor GUI tools. I'm curious as to why it was forced onto us all. It's just always felt like a retrograde step for me - and probably others and is more than likely the major reason why I've avoided it for so long to be honest. But, I'm giving it a crack now, enjoying your Powershell videos - I came here via your Sharepoint 2016 series as I am deploying it here at work ;)

So yeah I was following along watching the video in Google Chrome and I didn't have Edge running so I used Chrome as my example...fast forward to around 23:30 and $Zebra.Kill = lol trolled chrome and the video go bye bye. I found this funny.

Thanks a lot. A very good beginner session. Explained very clearly. Thanks Shane.

I am addicted to watching your videos! Thank you so much!

So far, it looks like a strange combination of a UNIX shell and old VMS command like stuff. Interesting..... Then again, Windows is sort of a great-great-great(great-great) grandchild of VMS, both originally written by the same guy. Windows NT (WNT) is VMS with each letter in WNT being the letters of VMS just where each letter is advanced by one character in the alphabet. (v+1=W, m+1=N,s+1=T)

curious how many people were watching this video in MicrosoftEdge when they tried to use the $zebra.kill() command

Thank you so much Shane, great explanations

Most intuitive intro I have watched. Great supplementation to reading the documentation

Tutorial starts at 3:00.

oh yeah yeah

The best video which about introduction of powershell. Thx Shane!

Thank you Bold Zebras! Informative and to the point! Well done man!

I left a comment on here using powershell

"AS400 hacker hiding in my closet type of feel." lol....

Great video, I am SQL dev in the UK and finding that power shell knowledge is becoming more sort after in my field. This introduces it very well and certainly takes way my fear of having to learn a new language.

Thank you! thank you! thank you! Complete PS novice, but have a need to learn basics quickly. This is best quick training I have found!

"this is gonna scroll for a minute here" mine finished in

I bet any money this guy had a few pints.