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The judging is complete for the fourth and final event in the 2014 Winter Scripting Games. This Games was something very different in that we presented 4 we complex scenarios that were designed to be as close as possible to the type of tasks you may have to perform at work. The solutions required …
Event 1 is over and the judging is complete. First off congratulations to every team that posted an entry - the events in these games are different and we’ve tried to up the challenge level to account for it being a team based. The high scorers for event 1 are: 1.Troll Bait with 22 points …
I’ve testing out the judging system using the practice event and one thing jumped out at me. It was a lot easier to understand the entries for those teams that included a transcript of their entry. I would very strongly recommend that you include a transcript of your entry running. As a …
In the last few years there has been a long list of people judging the Scripting Games. Those people were expected to view as many entries as possible, preferably all, and score the entries as well as providing feedback on the individual entries. That is a ton of work especially when you consider …
Following on from my previous post we"™ll look at how the two types of cmdlets compare for accessing remote machines. I used a similar format to the previous tests but was accessing a remote machine. First off was the WMI cmdlet ““ using DCOM to access the remote Windows 2012 server …
The MEAP for AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been updated with the release of chapter 9 on managing group policies
One question that came up at the summit was the comparative speed of execution of the new CIM cmdlets vs the old WMI cmdlets. No of us knew the answer because we"™d never tried measuring the speed. I decided to perform some tests. This first test is accessing the local machine. In both cases …
I was thinking on the plane back from the PowerShell summit about the CRUD activities. They are a concept we have inherited from the database world: C = Create R = Read U = Update D= Delete Create, Update and Delete correspond directly to the PowerShell verbs ““ New,Set and Remove …
The 2013 Scripting Games kicked off during the PowerShell summit. Event 1 is open and you can submit entries up until 23:59:59 GMT on 29 April 2013. Voting on the entries starts at at midnight on 30 April. You can enter and you can vote on the entries. This is a community games run by powershell.org …
I"™d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended the PowerShell Summit this last week. The Summit was a success ““ in no small part due to you. Your questions, and discussions, are what this is all about. It was a pleasure meeting you all and I hope to return next year …
