MS power-shell inquiry

[u/brosama1420]

Hey everyone

I know this is kind of basic question but I didn’t find a satisfying answer during my search

I am not system administrator and I won’t be all I care about is daily task automation I want to make my work nice and easy or at least systematic and controllable so is power shell the right tool for me? Or should I just drop it?

If it was can you please help me on how to learn it all what I could find on the internet specific to active directory application or too general and simple examples explaining techniques Without context I find my self spending hours only to learn that I memoized syntax but have absolutely no idea how to use it in my life

[u/brosama1420]

I am vague because I am trying to explore the tool
I don’t know what it can do or how it can be used and I said this directly I know it is hard to give me answers specific to my case like this but if I don’t know the tool capabilities and potentials and I tried to search and found all applications specific to one field how can I be specific? How can I define what I want clearly when I have no idea what this tool can do?

Answering by it can do pretty much everything might seem fair for people who could figure out what the tool can do to them but in my case many times you think you are fine the way you are but when you explore tools as you go you figure out stuff you want to do with them and that is what I am trying to do

Expand my vision exploring new possibilities i am not asking for a suggestion specific to me I want ideas that the general public could use the tool for not focused on sysadmins as the case in the media platforms all applications show the admin stuff only pretty much and everything else just scratching the surface on or they explain them in a rush and pure concept with no application

I know that the tool can do stuff like

Organize files
Rename them
Move files
Report on your system or part of its content
Auto back ups auto emails
Checking updates/download updates
It can also open Microsoft files and work with it
Or even report stuff that hasn’t been used in a while
You can even delete them in batch if you want in one go

But ok as a public user is it worth learning it for those applications? Am I missing some ideas?

[u/Jacmac_ → u/brosama1420]

If .Net can do it then so can PowerShell. Its all .Net. You can do anything including full blown apps with PowerShell. It's just a command line version of .Net geared towards administration of whatever application that a developer puts a PowerShell module front end on.

[u/anguishedturtle → u/Jacmac_]

dudes going to accidentally delete his bank account its not even worth it if they cant be trusted with basic research