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Don Jones
Scripting Games

Overall Winners of the Scripting Games

**Congratulations to our top winners, **determined by our expert judges (and in this case we also considered their CrowdScores), mikefrobbins and taygibb, who have just won a free pass to Microsoft TechEd Europe or Microsoft TechEd North America 2014. Instructions are in your profile for claiming …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Event 6 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 6 of The Scripting Games 2013! Winners: You can log into The Scripting Games Web site and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the …

Don Jones
Announcements

Call for Debates!

As the Scripting Games begin to wind down, I know that we’ve come across a number of divergent opinions, especially in the comments. “You shouldn’t use .NET classes!” says one comment, “you should have done this with a .NET class” says another comment _in the same …

Boe Prox

Scripting Games 2013: Event 6 Notes

We have finally hit the final event of the 2013 Scripting Games! The past 6 weeks have given us many amazing scripts and some that were in need of extra work. Regardless, for those of you who have finished all 6 scripts in your respective, I say Congratulations! You have hit the finish line …

Bartek Bielawski

Last events: my notes and scripts.

Oops! Looks like I totally forgot about posting what I did over here. Sorry! In order of appearance: Event 5 - script Event 5 - notes Event 6 - script Event 6 - notes This is last event, and I would like to thank everybody who took part in this games. Thank you guys for great ideas, inspiration, …

Art Beane

Notes for Event 6

When I read the instructions for event 6, I thought that here’s a tough one. A lot of competitors won’t have access to a test environment with Windows Server 2012 and Virtual Machines that they can actually work with. So, I expected that many of the entries wouldn’t get tested and …

Don Jones
Announcements

More PowerShell v4 and DSC Details

Here’s what I know, much based on a TechEd talk this week: We can expect PowerShell v4 to ship in the Windows Management Framework, as with previous versions. It will be preinstalled on Windows Server 2012 R2 and what they’re calling Windows 8.1; the default execution policy will be …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Event 5 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 5 of The Scripting Games 2013! Remember that Event 6 is now open for community voting, and that Event 6 opens up near the end of this week. That’ll be your last chance to contribute, and shortly after TechEd we’ll announce the overall …

Don Jones
Announcements

Microsoft announces PowerShell v4, DSC

Yesterday at TechEd North America, Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen began describing features to be delivered with PowerShell v4 in Windows Server 2012 R2 (the company has not yet announced availability dates for either). In particular, a new feature called Desired State Configuration promises to …