Paid PowerShell training, courses or other alternatives

[zenith night]

Got a (good 😊) problem I need help with!

My boss wants me to choose some training that the company will pay for 😁

Thing is I can't think of anything!

He suggested Pwsh courses but don't think there is any, maybe something to else could help or be an alternative?

Should I dive deeper and go into C# (cut teeth on Java) or maybe something else to help be become a better scripter / sysadmin? (Windows admin or networking), or get them to pay for books etc..?

I could pick another tech to train on, but we are going through a sort of org split with both sides going in their own direction, and I am currently stuck in the middle!

Don't want to pick something that ends up out of my hands and knowledge not a actively applied is wasted knowledge!

Any help would be great, I know it not a lot of info to go on!

[vapid mica]

See #resources .

PSKoans is somewhat abandoned but can be a good place to look for the self-taught.

There are plenty of training courses for most budgets, from udemy and puralsight to learningtree and qa. There are many and "don't think there is any" kind of suggests you didn't even google it I'm afraid.

For books, if you prefer to learn that way, one of the most popular is PowerShell in a Month of Lunches. It has a follow-me approach that many find appealing. This depends on your preferred learning style of course, for greater depth there's PowerShell in Action. My own book is more of a reference style (Mastering PowerShell Scripting 5th edition).

There's a lot available on YouTube too, although there's no specific content I can personally recommend.

I'd be a bit mindful of content age on YouTube. Don Jones' videos are there (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D474E721138865A), but at 12 years old they're going to teach some pretty outdated practices and commands. If you're mindful of that there's likely still good value.

C# can be useful, but it lacks the pre-built "stuff" that PS has for admins getting into scripting.

Java I have no clue, I don't see how it would help at all personally (for sys admin scripting on Windows).

Pure networking (assuming it's not "networking on Windows") would more likely lean towards python with a side-line into configuration management tooling like Ansible rather than PowerShell.

[zenith night]

Hey Chris, thanks for that and sorry for my badly written question 😁!

I did see the courses on puralsight QA etc.. but bar some on Udemy, I seem a bit more beginner focused than what I was looking for (should have made that clearer.) there doesn't appear to be a MS backed cert or paid course (tho az-400 has been suggested as to me as being interesting).

A do like a book as gives me structure to learning (when self learning I can jump all over the shot!) I love month of lunches, It was my first Pwsh book. Think I will check out yours tho, the amount I see you helping on here, you defo know you stuff!

My thinking around C# was to go deeper as I know a lot of Pwsh cmdlets are built from it (the Java comment is I used it at Uni, and looking at C# it seems very similar! Also when I first used PowerShell and realised it returned objects, I was like "I know how to work with these !!", using Java for sysadmin work seems like a cruel punishment the Hades would hand out)

For networking, I have massive blind spots there, IP subnetting makes my head hurt, tho that would be more beginner (and maybe something I could self learn, but I think I need help) , but also this may end up as wasted knowledge of I went to deep as it's not really in my role (I'm more EUT)

But again, thanks buddy 👍 you have given me plenty to think about 🙂