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Following are the resources for Sitecore PowerShell Extensions – up to 5th of November 2014.

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How do I get the PowerShell Extensions for Sitecore?

• Download the Console installation package from its page on GitHub   or Sitecore Marketplace.
• Download Sitecore PowerShell Extensions integration with Sitecore Rocks Project from it’s Codeplex page.

101 level tutorials for PowerShell Extensions for Sitecore

• Michael West’s most helpful Videos about Sitecore PowerShell <- you should probably start here
• Adam Najmanowicz’s talk at Sitecore Virtual User Summit about Sitecore PowerShell Use Cases and Architecture
• Best practices for working with Sitecore items in PowerShell
• Michael Reynolds’ Sitecore User Group Video  about PowerShell Extensions and Revolver
• So what PowerShell Console for Sitecore is and what can it do for me?
• Sitecore PowerShell Console cheat sheet Part 1 & Part 2

External learning materials helpful for all PowerShell scripters

• Free PowerShell EBooks
• TechNet’s list of essential tools and resources for working with Windows PowerShell. The Windows PowerShell Toolbox
• Sitecore Virtual User Group:  An Introduction into PowerShell from a Sitecore .NET Developer
• PowerShell Guidelines & Best Practices
• Great video by @jsnover ? the architect of PowerShell ? about how to learn PowerShell.

Code Examples

• Sample scripts for Sitecore PowerShell Console.
• Bulk Item Updates
• Read-Variable Example
• Re-create a site structure from its sitemap in your Sitecore instance with PowerShell
• Zip and download Sitecore logs
• Zip and download Sitecore Media Library folder
• Archive Log Files
• Link to one image instead of another ? everywhere it?s used
• Query for unused assets in Media Library in Sitecore using PowerShell
• Delete Unused Media Items
• Set Random Wallpaper
• Unlock Items
• Kick Users

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
• Extend the console itself with your own PowerShell commandlets
• Using PowerShell to define field?s data source.
• Scheduled Tasks ? Video tutorial
• React to Sitecore events with PowerShell scripts
• Execute PowerShell Scripts in Scheduled Tasks
• Add Scripts to the PowerShell Toolbox
• Launch PowerShell Scripts in the Item Context Menu

PowerShell Extensions as tooling for Sitecore development

• Writing integration tests using PowerShell
  • Part 2 ? Building your own PowerShell commandlets
  • Part 3 ? Using Remote Automation web service to run them
• Sitecore and PowerShell: Feel like He-man
• Serialization and deserialization with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions
• Sitecore PowerShell console in Visual Studio
• Fixing problematic content or Workflow state
• How to populate Sitecore with test data using PowerShell
• Migrating large amounts of content in Sitecore with PowerShell Extensions
• Remoting into your Sitecore PowerShell instance

Using PowerShell Extensions for reporting

• Reports with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (Michael West?s take)
• Create a Custom Report in Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (this time by Mike Reynolds)
• And then again ?Creating beautiful Sitecore reports easily with PowerShell Extensions? by yours truly ? because we can never have enough articles about reports

Interesting use cases of the PowerShell Extensions Module

• Using PowerShell Extensions runtime in your own code.
• PowerShell scripted Data Sources in Sitecore (part 1) & (part 2)
• Using PowerShell to create and run on demand tasks
• Sitecore PowerShell Extended with Gutters (part of the SPE core since v2.7.5)
• Sitecore PowerShell Extended with Pipelines (part of the SPE core since v2.7.5)

Other potential uses for PowerShell Console for Sitecore?

• How PowerShell can help you perform a site audit Part 1 & Part 2
• Using PowerShell console to perform tasks otherwise tedious in code.

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.
• Alistair Deneys

PowerShell Extensions on Conferences and User Groups

• Michael Reynolds ?Sitecore from the Command Line? ? Event & Video.
  • Dan Soloway?s Blog about the event
• Adam Najmanowicz?s ?Supercharge your Sitecore Solution with PowerShell? ? on Sitecore Users Virtual Summit
• Michael West?s presentation of PowerShell Extensions to PowerShell users who do not know Sitecore.
• Michael Reynolds ?Making Magic with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions? (event page)
• Michael Reynold?s ?Sitecore PowerShell Extensions? presentation at SUGCON 2014 and the PowerPoint deck from it.

PowerShell Extensions Development & internals

• Sitecore PowerShell Extensions persistent sessions ? what you need to know about them
• How Sitecore PowerShell got GUI support? a tale of JobMonitor and Sitecore Async UI API.
• What does it take the Release the PowerShell Extensions module
• Sitecore PowerShell Extensions 3.0 modules proposal

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 – @techphoria414 – co-author of Sitecore WeBlog/EviBlog and Sitecore PowerShell Console. Sitecore MVP.
  • Blog – Changing Item Templates With Sitecore PowerShell
  • Blog – Use Sitecore Powershell Console to Find Templates with Layout
  • Forum – PowerShell error on Get-Item
• Alex Shyba – Sitecore US – advanced stuff with PowerShell deployment (@alexshyba)
  • Installing Sitecore with PowerShell
• Alistair Deneys – Sitecore MVP, Next Digital –
  • Delivers “Sitecore Scripting” talk on Sitecore Symposium 2012, presentation available tor download here.
• 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). Continues to help with code cleanup.
• Andrzej Pusilowski – Cognifide ? contributed the Execute-WorkflowStep commandlet.
• Kieran Marron ? Eduserv ? (@Kieranties) ? did some super cool stuff with PowerShell and Sitecore
  • PowerShell for Sitecore Item Web API ? pure PowerShell script calling Sitecore!
• Michael West – (@MichaelWest101) – The wizzard behind the code editor in ISE and a general PowerShell master
  • Michael West’s most helpful Videos about Sitecore PowerShell
  • Michael’s blog has some interesting code snippets and scripts as well as the videos about SPE.
• Mike Reynolds – (@mike_i_reynolds) – Sitecore guru also doing some of his magic in PowerShell and a Contributor to SPE
  • Michael Reynolds Sitecore User Group Video  about PowerShell Extensions and Revolver – and a summarizing post on Velir’s site.
  • Michael’s Blog has some articles about PowerShell as well.
• Great thanks to Lars Nielsen? (@ln_sitecore) and Lars Birkholm Peters (?@larsbirkholm) for their support and encouragement for the project.
• Vincent Galiana?s blog article with his experiences with PowerShell console.
• Uli ? (Blog) Fantastic series about the use of PowerShell to deliver Integration tests.
  • Integration tests using PowerShell
    • Part 2 ? Building your own PowerShell commandlets
    • Part 3 ? Using Remote Automation web service to run them
• Ian Graham ? (@ianjohngraham) ? using PowerShell in his daily routines:
  • Sitecore and PowerShell: Feel like He-man
• Chris Lewis (@ChrisLewisDev) ? joins the PowerShell Extensions contributor?s team with his excellent commit improving Publish-Item commandlet!
• Bartłomiej Mucha (blog) ? PowerShell blogger from Poland (Yay! Go Poland!)
• Hans Léautaud (@HLeautaud) ? migrates a large amount of content with PowerShell Extensions and blogs about it.

How can I contribute?

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