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Scripting Games – Filter early again
Grading the scripts in Event 4 and the one thing that jumps out is the amount of unnecessary data being carried through the scripts You were asked for 7 properties off 20 random users Get-ADUser has a… more →
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2013 PowerShell Scripting Games Advanced Event 4 - Auditors Love Greenbar Paper
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wrote 1 day ago: The requirements for the 2013 Scripting Games Advanced Event 4 can be found here. For this event I c … more →
Scripting Games - Filter early again
wrote 3 days ago: Grading the scripts in Event 4 and the one thing that jumps out is the amount of unnecessary data be … more →
Scripting Games - Win32_LogicalDisk or Win32_Volume
wrote 4 days ago: I have heard some discussions recently regarding whether Win32_LogicalDisk or Win32_Volume should be … more →
Scripting Games 2013 so far...
wrote 1 week ago: Scripting Games 2012 was my first experience with the games. I had been fiddling with Powershell for … more →
Scripting Games-Subfunctions
wrote 1 week ago: One of the principles of writing scripts (or any code) is the KISS principle – Keep It Simple Script … more →
2013 PowerShell Scripting Games Advanced Event 3 - Bringing Bad Habits from the GUI to PowerShell
wrote 1 week ago: I’m seeing a trend with a lot of PowerShell scripters. Many of us have a GUI, non-scripting backgrou … more →
Scripting Games–filtering on remote server
wrote 1 week ago: In event 3 you have to get information on hard disk capacity. I’ve only looked at the first co … more →
Advanced Event 3 - 2013 Scripting Games
wrote 1 week ago: We have made it to the midpoint of the Scripting Games. I think that a lot has been learned and the … more →
Scripting games–ErrorActionPreference
wrote 1 week ago: I’ve seen a lot of this type of thing in events 1 and 2 $ErrorPref = $ErrorActionPreference$ErrorAct … more →
People Who are Blogging About the 2013 Scripting Games
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wrote 1 week ago: I’m sure that most people can easily find any of the blogs of the official judges from the 201 … more →
Scripting Games–making work
wrote 2 weeks ago: I saw this in one of the submissions: $Properties = @{} $Properties['Computer'] = $SystemInfo.__SERV … more →
2013 PowerShell Scripting Games Advanced Event 2 – Why NOT to use the Win32_ComputerSystem WMI Class
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The majority of the entries I’ve seen for the Scripting Games event 2 are using the TotalPhysi … more →
Advanced Event 2 - 2013 Scripting Games
wrote 2 weeks ago: The games continue! The second event has closed and voting has begun. There is still time for you to … more →
2013 PowerShell Scripting Games Advanced Event 2 - Attention to Detail is Everything
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Here’s my approach to the 2013 PowerShell Scripting Games Advanced Event 2: When I start one o … more →
Scripting Games–new Get-ChildItem parameters
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wrote 2 weeks ago: One improvement that came with PowerShell v3 is the –File and –Directory parameters on Get-ChildItem … more →
Scripting Games-don’t repeat the work
wrote 2 weeks ago: There are some good features to this script but what really hurts is the two trips to the server for … more →
Scripting Games–how not to output data
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I haven’t finished blogging about event 1 yet but this caught my eye. Things aren’t too bad until we … more →
Scripting Games: event 1–use of robocopy
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The object of the exercise in both the beginners and advanced sections of event 1 was to move a set … more →
Scripting Games–major dislike #2
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve already blogged about incorrect use of backticks. Here is another example of un-necessary … more →
