{"id":348,"date":"2014-11-16T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/11\/16\/weekend-scripter-scriptifya-new-powershell-learning-tool\/"},"modified":"2014-11-16T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T00:01:00","slug":"weekend-scripter-scriptifya-new-powershell-learning-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/weekend-scripter-scriptifya-new-powershell-learning-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Scripter: Scriptify—A New PowerShell Learning Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Microsoft PFE, Steve Jeffery, talks about a new Windows PowerShell learning tool: Scriptify.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have a guest blog post by premier field engineer, Steve Jeffery. He talks about a new tool he created to help you learn Windows PowerShell. Now, here's Steve…<\/p>\n

I started using Windows PowerShell several years ago as a SharePoint administrator. I quickly realized what a powerful language it is when I started automating my daily tasks with it. Eventually, I was automating complete builds.<\/p>\n

Since then, I’ve become a Windows PowerShell fanatic, and I try to find reasons to use it every day! As a premier field engineer for Microsoft, I always promote Windows PowerShell to my customers as a great way to automate tasks and report on environments.<\/p>\n

SharePoint 2013 has over 700 cmdlets (and growing), so finding the right cmdlet to use can be time consuming. I developed Scriptify as a personal project to help reduce the time it takes to find the SharePoint cmdlet that you need to use.<\/p>\n

Scriptify categorizes the cmdlets and provides a visual navigation to get to the area of the product that you need to work with quickly and easily.<\/p>\n

In the following screenshot, you can see the product area categories:<\/p>\n

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Clicking a category returns all of the relevant cmdlets, as shown here for the Access Services category:<\/p>\n

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When you have found the cmdlet you need, clicking it returns the parameters and a link to its related Microsoft TechNet topic, for example:<\/p>\n

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This is just the start for Scriptify. Over the coming weeks, I will be releasing some updates to it, which will include:<\/p>\n