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If you’re attending the Summit and are arriving Sunday afternoon, drop by the Azteca restaurant on 148th. I’ll be there with some of the Board from 5pm, in the bar. It’s informal, pay-your-own-way, and a chance just to say hi before we kick off on Monday. Safe journey!
We’ve finalized the prizes! Overall Winners These are the folks who do the best overall. This prize will be awarded in mid-June. The overall winners from both the Advanced and Beginner events will win a free pass (travel expenses not included) to TechEd North America 2014 or TechEd Europe 2013 …
If you’ve been on the site today, you’ve doubtless noticed some of the visual changes. In addition to providing a simpler theme that - over time - will be more mobile-friendly, we’re also lining up for a major move of our discussion forums. That’ll probably happen after …
I’ve posted an instruction booklet for the 2013 Scripting Games. Although you can’t register until April 22nd, you can get a sneak peek at what the new Games Web site looks like, and start preparing yourself to compete. READ THE FRIENDLY MANUAL. There are some one-time decisions …
Manning have released another set of chapters in their early access program for PowerShell Deep Dives. If you have an interest in PowerShell I would strongly urge you to buy a copy. It has chapters from a number of well known PowerShell authors together with some very good material from new authors. …
A very busy time coming up in PowerShell land with the first PowerShell Summit kicking off in just over a week"™s time. The 2013 Scripting Games will also be starting very soon. I"™ll try and post about both of them as time allows
I really like Windows Server Core. The concept has come of age in Windows 2012. I needed to add a new disk to a virtual machine – that"™s easy using the Hyper-V cmdlets. But what about formating the disk. A module new to Windows 2012 & Windows can be used. Its the Storage module. I"™ve …
Windows Server 2012 has a PowerShell enabled backup utility. When you enable the feature you get a module called WindowsServerBackup. It has the cmldets you would expect for creating and managing backups. No surprise you may say as this was avialable in Windows 2008 R2. The difference with Windows …
Believe it or not, we are coming up on our one year anniversary, and will be winding down our capital campaign. If you’d like to become a stockholder in PowerShell.org, you will have until June 1st May 15 to do so. Read the details at https://powershell.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=239 …
I tripped over an interesting issue recently regarding the running of PowerShell workflows. Consider the world"™s simplest workflow workflow test-w1 {“hello world”} If I run this on a 32bit Windows 8 PowerShell machine ““ it works If I run this on Windows 2012 (64bit) on …
