While I?m updating it on a separate page I thought for the purpose of having a record and further tracking – it would be interesting to capture the state of the PowerShell knowledge in the Sitecore community here as well.

How do I get the PowerShell Console for Sitecore?

• Download the Console installation package from its Sitecore Shared Source page.
• Introductory documentation to PowerShell console on its Shared Source page.

Adam’s (101 level) blogs for PowerShell Console for Sitecore

• So what PowerShell Console for Sitecore is and what can it do for me?
• Sitecore PowerShell Console cheat sheet Part 1 & Part 2
• Sample scripts for Sitecore PowerShell Console

How PowerShell console can help you extend Sitecore?

• Continuous deployment in Sitecore with PowerShell
• Extending Sitecore ribbon with PowerShell scripts
• PowerShell driven Sitecore scheduled tasks

External Content helpful for Sitecore PowerShell Scripters

• Free PowerShell EBooks
• Sitecore Virtual User Group:  An Introduction into PowerShell from a Sitecore .NET Developer

Alternative solutions

• PowerShell console in Sitecore Rocks ? part of the Sitecore Rocks extension to Visual Studio
• psTerminal ? not available yet (currently in development by Andrew Chumachenko of Sitecore UA) ? introduced on Sitecore Virtual User Group Webinar.

The PowerShell co-nerds within Sitecore Community

Other people that did research in the field, adopted the console early and/or are knowledgeable in the subject:

• Jakob Christensen – Sitecore – Sitecore Rocks author – has alternative Sitecore PowerShell console (@TheRocksGuy
  Sitecore.PowerShell – Rocks PowerShell commandlets
• James Gardner – PS Console enthusiast – doing quite advanced stuff with the console (@iamdudley
  • Powershell Console – editing fields that have never been populated
  • PowerShell Console script examples for updating built in fields
• Nick Wesselman – co-author of Sitecore EviBlog (@techphoria414 – PS proponent.
  • Blog – Changing Item Templates With Sitecore PowerShell
  • Forum – PowerShell error on Get-Item
• Alex Shyba – Sitecore US – advanced stuff with PowerShell deployment (@alexshyba
  • Installing Sitecore with PowerShell
• Szymon Kuźniak – Cognifide – contributed commandlets to the console (@skuzniak)
  • Sitecore Profile Cards: The Lazy Way
• Marek Musielak ? Cognifide ? (@MarasM) great thanks to Marek for his help in integrating JQueryTerminal with the console)
• Great thanks to Lars Nielsen? (@ln_sitecore) and Lars Birkholm Peters (?@larsbirkholm) for their support and encouragement for the project.

How can I contribute?

If you have any suggestions please email me: adam [at] najmanowicz.com or post within the Sitecore Shared Source Forum.

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