Where is the official (Microsoft) documentation for power shell?

Check out the Script Center on Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd742419 Developer documentation can be found here on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd835506(v=VS.85).aspx Hope this helps.

Thanks. I guess there's no documentation that is intended to be understandable to the layman (ordinary computer owner).

For layman, there are books. Technical documentation is for developers and IT. Regards, --pa

Mmmmmm, check out the reviews. There are a few searing ones there. Similarly, click the image in this other thread and examine those reviews. Regarding the Proposed/Answer links above. Click 4 levels deep into the Introduction to find a whole page dedicated to this single paragraph. Why? And the Introduction concludes with this arbitrarily disconnected mention of Methods, Properties, Objects, and a statement about Pipes (|). Introduction. That was its summary? I'm sorry to seem argumentative. But I cannot study fragmented stuff like this. As Mike hinted, it's just plain demoralizing. And I doubt Oliver or Andre read it either. Or even tried to. It's impenetrable. Why is it formatted in such a way that it cannot be printed-out? What has happened to traditional Table Of Contents, Chapters, and Page Numbers? Don't tell me that concept is obsolete. It's not. This isn't fun anymore.