Scripting Games warm up
As a warm up for this years Scripting Games a two event Winter Scripting Camp has been organised. Details from https://powershell.org/games/
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VERIFIED EFFECTIVE PowerShell "certification" program now ready for beta
NOTE: As of 4th February, we’re full up for the beta. Check back later this year for the program launch. I’m ready to begin a formal beta test of the new VERIFIED EFFECTIVEâ„¢ examination program, which we’d previously referred to as “PowerShell Verified.” Participation …
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Winter Scripting Camp Opened to the Public
Everything’s been going pretty smoothly, so we’ve decided to open Winter Scripting Camp to everyone! Read everything below carefully for the best camping experience! Scripting Camp is a precursor to the Scripting Games, which will kick off in late April. During Camp, you’ll have …
PowerShell and Active Directory recording
The recording, slides and demo script from yesterday"™s PowerShell and Active Directory session can be found here: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%2140563
PowerShell workflows"“now we are six
The sixth in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published. The articles in the series that have been published are: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx …
PowerShell for Admins
The 2013 Winter Scripting Camp
We’ll be announcing Winter Scripting Camp the first week of February. This is a special invite-only event that will be open to subscribers of the PowerShell.org TechLetter. It will work just like the Scripting Games, but will feature only a couple of events and will not include any prizes. We …
PowerShell and Active Directory"“reminder
Quick reminder for tomorrow"™s session from the UK PowerShell group. Details from: http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2013/01/16/uk-powershell-group-29-january-2013.aspx
Piping between functions
A question came up about piping between advanced functions. The input to the second function might be an array. To illustrate how this works imagine a function that gets disk information ““ or better still use this one. `function get-mydisk { [ CmdletBinding ( ) ] param ( [string] …
Starting virtual machines for WSUS
My test environment usually has a dozen or so machines at any one time. Some of these are short lived and used for a particular piece of testing ““ others are kept for years. I decided that I wanted to keep up to date on the patching of these virtual machines so installed WSUS on a Windows …
Account SIDs"“hopefully my last word
Ok the embarrassing moral of this story is that you shouldn’t answer questions in a hurry at the end of the evening. 5 minutes after shutting down I realised that there is a far, far simpler way to get the info. Win32_AccountSID is a WMI linking class. It links Win32_SystemAccount and …