Matt had to cancel so we had a mini-scripting games. Bellow are the challenges. Challenge 1 Generate a list of US Presidents sorted by last name alphabetically. Hints: Invoke-WebRequest http://www.presidentsusa.net/presvplist.html Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.HtmlWebResponseObject Challenge 2 Create a DSC Configuration that verifies the w32time service is set to Automatic startup and is in a Running state. Some […]
A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Stephen Owen, Julie Andreacola and Jason Morgan about the Scripting Games News PowerShell DSC for Linux Here’s a chance to attend a beta Advanced PowerShell class Here’s the lab guide The PowerShell Summit N.A. videos Aaron Hoover recorded […]
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 multi-file […]
A number of entries in the Winter Scripting Games use parameter validation, but some that I have seen may not be using it correctly or to its full potential. Writing functions or scripts require a variety of parameters which have different requirements based on a number of items. It could require a collection, objects of […]
There are several concepts that come to mind when discussing the topic of designing your PowerShell commands for performance and efficiency, but in my opinion one of the items at the top of the list is “Filtering Left” which is what I’ll be covering in this blog article. First, let’s start out by taking a […]
Adding and removing Items from a PowerShell array is a topic which can lead to some confusion, so here are a few tips for you. Create an array and we will note the type System.Array: Click here to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the […]
Sometimes when running a PowerShell script you may need to test at the beginning whether the process it was called from had Windows admin privileges in order to be able to achieve what it needs to do. Prior to PowerShell v4 I had used something along the lines of the following to test for this […]
In Version 2 of PowerShell, you had the ability to use #Requires –Version 2.0 to ensure that your scripts/functions would only run at a specified PowerShell version to prevent folks running an older version from wondering why things weren’t working that well. In this article, I will show you a couple of new additions to the […]
In the course of participating in the practice event, and working on event 1, I’ve noticed a couple of things about the way files are displayed in the File window on the Scripting Games site: The site treats all files as ASCII; when you upload a Unicode file, syntax highlighting doesn’t work and you wind […]
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 minimum I would […]
Having been a judge for the previous 2 Scripting Game competitions as well as competing in the 2 before that, I have seen my share of scripts submitted that didn’t quite meet the cut of what I felt were the best scripts. It doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t work out in the real world in […]
In my previous blog article (PowerShell Tip #2), I left off with the subject of inline help and stated there was a better way. I’m fast-forwarding through lots of concepts and jumping right into “Advanced Functions and Scripts” with this tip because they are where you’ll find the answer to a “better way” to add […]