Tips and Tricks in 3.0

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From Scripting Guy 5 new tips and tricks

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/08/20/my-five-favorite-powershell-3-0-tips-and-tricks.aspx

Create PowerShell profiles

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb613488(v=vs.85).aspx

help *  (man for linux)

New window popup
help get-service -showwindow  (v2 help get-process -online )

Auto build you commands
show-command get-wmiobject

Help can get updates
update-help (save-help)

Find the verbs
Get-verb

Find the verbs and count
Measure-object

If you have a conflict
microsoft.powershell.management\get-process

One Line is Magic
get-process | kill -whatif
get-process | kill -confirm

get-process [a-r]*[g-w] | kill -whatif

does it work well in a pipeline?
get-help get-service -full

PowerShell 3.0

Crash Course on V3 (awesome)
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV321

Check out whats new in powershell 3.0
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh857339.aspx

Guides from Technet Library
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978525.aspx

Manage SharePoint Users with PowerShell

Great Reference to PowerShell in SharePoint 2010
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678226.aspx

Examples
Adding users and claims to a site from PowerShell
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brporter/archive/2010/12/02/adding-users-and-claims-to-a-site-from-powershell.aspx

Changing the Item-Level Permissions Settings for a Document Library requires PowerShell http://www.hersheytech.com/Blog/SharePoint/tabid/197/entryid/28/Default.aspx

PowerShell script to capture and report on all SharePoint permissions through a site collection http://localgovernmentsharepoint.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/powershell-script-to-capture-and-report-on-all-sharepoint-permissions-through-a-site-collection/

The PowerShell script I (Todd) use to create Active Directory users http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=362