PowerShell.org Articles published in May 2013.
Jan Egil Ring is a multiple-year recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions in the Windows PowerShell technical community. He has a strong passion for Windows PowerShell, and regularly writes articles on his blog. He occasionally also writes articles for …
Event 2 is in the books and with that, it is time to take a look at all of the scripts submitted and make the difficult decisions as to which ones I liked and which ones I didn’t quite like. Just because a script landed on my “˜Not so Favorite”™ list doesn’t mean it was …
Tobias Weltner: http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-task-2-commentary/ Jan Egil Ring: http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/08/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-2/ Voting for Event 2 is going strong, and you’ve got several more days in which to vote and (most importantly) …
First of all, congratulations! It looks to me like a lot of learning is going on; the 2nd event entries look really good to me. I especially liked the way a number of you built up a one-liner by starting with a_ Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName (Get-Content file.txt)_ and piping it …
While reviewing Event 1 (and now Event 2) I’ve seen some scripts that don’t quite have the correct pipeline support and others that do a great job with it. Whether it is an unneeded Begin or End statement, or throwing everything into a Process block and not quite getting the expected …
Jeff Wouters gave an excellent presentation via Lync on: Avoiding the pipeline - Improving your learning curve - Improving your teaching curve John Mello gave a presentation and demo of script that uses Exchange multi-valued custom attributes to store information on when to remove users from a …
I thought I’d mentioned this last time (tap tap, this thing on?), but maybe not: don’t format the output of your functions. The minute a function includes Format-*, you’ve trapped me into on-screen display, a text file or piece of paper modeled after the on-screen display, or not a …
I continue to be amused by folks’ reactions to the Games this year. There’s been some buzz on Twitter this morning from folks who feel some of their comments - and the corresponding low scores - aren’t warranted. In a couple of cases I’ve looked at, they’re right - …
We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 1 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 …
