AD Management in a Month of Lunches
The MEAP marches on with chapter 8 now released: Chapter 8 ““ creating Group Policies details from http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/
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Scripting Games
2013 Scripting Games Judges
As described in the 2013 Scripting Games Competitors’ Guide, our expert judges this year will not be awarded numeric scores. Frankly, folks seem more interested in having their entries peer-reviewed than just getting a number - and why not? Expert review is a great way to learn! Unfortunately, …
Scripting Games
2013 Scripting Games' Mighty Panel of Celebrity Judges
As revealed in the 2013 Scripting Games Competitors’ Guide, the 2013 Games will invite the community in general to award numeric votes for entries. Our expert judges will instead focus on commentary, helping make the Games into an even better learning experience. They’ll be commenting …
PowerShell for Admins
Coming: Tips for the Scripting Games
In preparation for the upcoming Scripting Games, the April 2013 issue of the free PowerShell.org TechLetter will feature tips, examples, and advice for helping you do the best in the Games! Remember that the Competitor Guide is now available, so you can start reviewing how the Games will be graded …
PowerShell Script that Relaunches as Admin
If were following good security practices we run our Windows system with UAC enabled. This means that if you forget to launch your PowerShell prompt as Administrator when you run a script that requires administrative privilege then that script will fail. It would be nice to build a mechanism into …
Manning Deal of the Day "“ April 6 2013
My PowerShell and WMI book will be Manning"™s deal of the day for 6 April 2013. The deal will go live at Midnight US ET and will stay active for about 48 hours. This is your chance to get the book with a 50% discount. Use code dotd0406au at manning.com/siddaway2/ The Deal of the Day offer also …
Scripting Games
2013 Scripting Games Schedule
Registration for the 2013 Scripting Games will begin April 22nd (check this post in case we need to make a change to that). You will register for either the Beginner or Advanced track. Get the Beginner Track Practice Event Get the Advanced Track Practice Event Each event will kick off on a Thursday, …
Putting the date in a file name
I often need to create file names that include the date & time the file was created in the name. I"™ve come up with all sorts of ways to do but this I think is the simplest. I want the date in this format: year-month-day-hour-minute-second. In other words a format that is easily sortable. I …
PowerShell excerpt week
The Scripting Guy is running a series of excerpts from the PowerShell books published by Manning. Today is PowerShell in Practice http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/03/excel-spreadsheets.aspx Check out the deals all this week on Manning PowerShell books
Scripting Games
2013 Scripting Games Competitor Guide (for the Public, too!)
Our Competitor Guide is now online - you can download it here: 2013 Competitor Guide We’re doing things a bit differently this year. We’ll be engaging the overall PowerShell community for numeric grades - and those doing the grading have an awesome chance to win some great prizes! Our …