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Not sure how much time you have, but if you do not have much I strongly recommend "Learn PowerShell In A Month Of Lunches" [1]

Basically means that if you can spend about one hour every day on the text and exercises in the book you will be able to grasp PowerShell scripting in about a month.

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-...

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This book is book great and after you've read it I can recommend "The Powershell Scripting and Toolmaking Book"[1]. I just started reading it and teaches you how to write good tools with practical examples and business scenarios. My next step will be learning Pester and DSC.

Also "Powershell in Action" by Manning is great to lookup things in detail.

[1] https://leanpub.com/powershell-scripting-toolmaking

Definitely recommend the Manning book "PowerShell in Action" by Bruce Payette. The second edition is on Amazon but looks like a third edition is coming out in the Spring and you can pick up the EAP.

https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-t...

What's a practical way to learn it on a Macintosh? VM?

Windows VM, or if you are a daredevil you could try and install PowerShell 6 (which will be crossplatform) on macOS from here: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell (do note its currently in alpha state)

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