{"id":8901,"date":"2007-01-06T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2007\/01\/06\/blog-your-initial-powershell-experiences\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:20:56","slug":"blog-your-initial-powershell-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/blog-your-initial-powershell-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Your Initial PowerShell Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Fisher has&nbsp;just started using PowerShell and is blogging&nbsp;his impressions.&nbsp; You can see them at <a href=\"http:\/\/fastdad.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/05\/windows-powershell-10\/\">http:\/\/fastdad.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/05\/windows-powershell-10\/<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp; 10,000 thanks Michael! <\/p>\n<p><strong>I can&#8217;t tell you how valuable we find it when people do this!<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>We fully expect that you are going to have to invest a few hours to understand the key PowerShell concepts before you &#8220;get it&#8221; but if you can tell us about your initial experience\/impressions, it helps us tweak things for the people that come after you.&nbsp;We can add some Help, tweak our documentation,&nbsp; add&nbsp;additional Aliases\/Functions etc.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If you wait a few weeks or even a few days, you&#8217;ll have developed coping mechanisms and won&#8217;t remember the early difficulties you had so please blog them while they are still in your head.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;Michael&#8217;s blog, he mentioned&nbsp;that he didn&#8217;t find&nbsp;the help&nbsp;intuitive.&nbsp; That is good to know, it tells me that I have an issue but there isn&#8217;t enough information to help me address the issue.&nbsp; When you&nbsp;come across something that isn&#8217;t working for you, if you could&nbsp;be specific about what the problem was &#8211; that&nbsp;is very helpful.&nbsp;&nbsp;e.g. What did you type?&nbsp; What did you get vs what did you expect to get?&nbsp; Alternatively, it is awesome when people tell us&nbsp;what an optimal experience for them would be.&nbsp; &#8220;I&#8217;d like to be able to just type xxx and get yyy.&#8221;&nbsp; That stuff is pure gold.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Nothing jazzes up the team more than really understanding how to make PowerShell provide you the best experience possible.&nbsp; Speak up &#8211; we are listening.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again Michael!<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]<br \/>Windows PowerShell\/MMC Architect<br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a><br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Fisher has&nbsp;just started using PowerShell and is blogging&nbsp;his impressions.&nbsp; You can see them at http:\/\/fastdad.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/05\/windows-powershell-10\/&nbsp;.&nbsp; 10,000 thanks Michael! 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