Articles

PowerShell articles, tutorials, and guides from community experts.

Bartek Bielawski

Event 4: My notes…

Active Directory is one of those things I just love to work with. That’s why I was really looking forward to this event. As always, I learned few things, but still - seen some mistakes that I would like to highlight. As always - you can read about those both in Polish and in English. Enjoy!

Glenn Sizemore
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Week 4

Again if you"™re participating in the games this year you"™ve already won! If you"™re not and you"™re reading this post what are you doing! I"™ve watched authors step there game up over the past month, and I can tell you from personal experience the games will make you …

Boe Prox

Scripting Games 2013: Event 4 Notes

It is all downhill from here folks! Event 4 is in the books and we only have 2 more to go! Everyone has been doing an outstanding job with their submissions and it is becoming clear that people are learning new things and showing some great techniques with their code. Of course, this doesn’t …

Don Jones

Event 4 Notes

Loved seeing [OutputType([PSObject])] in an entry this morning… that helps the help system document what your script produces. It’s a shame it doesn’t work well with custom type names (since those are a bit of a fake-out on the object), but it’s an attention to detail I …

Art Beane

Judge notes for Event 4

 Wow! That’s the only word I can think of to describe the submissions this time. I’m really impressed with the approaches taken to solve this problem. The only thing that could have been better is quitting when the ActiveDirectory module or the Quest snapin weren’t found. I chalked …

June Blender

ValidateScript for Beginners

There"™s been a lot of chatter about in Scripting Games 2013 blog posts about the ValidateScript attribute. The chatter is, appropriately, confined to the advanced events ““ this sort of thing is not expected in a one-liner. But I thought I”™d take a minute and demystify it ““ …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Event 3 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 3 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 …