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PowerShell news April 2012
As April comes to close so does the extension for grading scripts in the recent games. I’ve been so busy grading haven’t had time to blog about the games. I’ll start to catch up on the backlog over the next few weeks. This years games have been...
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Sun, Apr 29 2012 6:59 AM
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UK PowerShell Group–April 2012 slides and recording
The slides, demo script and recording are available from https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212957 Thank you again to everyone who attended the Live Meeting this evening Read More...
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Tue, Apr 24 2012 3:04 PM
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Reminder–UK User group 24 April
Quick reminder that 24 April sees the first of 2 sessions on new PowerShell functionality in Windows 2012 – Windows Server 8 Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/04/13/uk-powershell-group-24-april-2012.aspx Read More...
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Mon, Apr 23 2012 3:55 PM
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Scripting Games 2012 comments: #10 Advanced event 5
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/04/06/2012-scripting-games-advanced-event-5-list-errors.aspx This is the one I was asked to supply a commentary for http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/04/20/expert-commentary...
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Sat, Apr 21 2012 6:00 AM
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Scripting Games 2012 comments: #9 Beginners event 5
Beginners event 5 http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/04/06/2012-scripting-games-beginner-event-5-provide-a-source-and-errors.aspx Looking for problem applications. Need report from each server form application log listing source and...
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Tue, Apr 17 2012 1:47 PM
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Scripting Games 2012 comments: #8 Beginners Event 4
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/04/05/2012-scripting-games-beginner-event-4-compare-two-folders.aspx Makes sure you run the script provided with the event to get the right folders. The script randomly removes 1 file from each folder...
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Sat, Apr 14 2012 10:38 AM
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Scripting Games 2012 comments: #7 update on beginners event 3
It was bugging me that I couldn’t get try-catch work on the folder where I didn’t have permissions. Finally thought of the reason – set the ErrorAction to Ignore. Heres the revised script [ CmdletBinding ( ) ] param ( [string] $path = "C:\2012sg...
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Fri, Apr 13 2012 4:39 PM
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Scripting games 2012 comments: #6 Beginners event 3
Onto event 3 http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/04/04/2012-scripting-games-beginner-event-3-create-a-file-in-a-folder.aspx where we have to create a file in a folder. Simple – well yes but not with the twists the Scripting Guy throws...
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Fri, Apr 13 2012 3:54 PM
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UK PowerShell Group–24 April 2012
This months meeting is the first of two looking at the new PowerShell functionality in Windows Server 8. Yes, there is so much it will take two sessions! When: Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 7:30 PM (BST) Where: Virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* This is the first of...
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Scripting Games 2012 comments: #5 using WHERE
I have seen a few interesting variations on using where-object during the games. This is normally aliased to where. You can use ? if you are fanatical about aliases but to me your PowerShell starts to become unreadable if its heavily aliased. Consider...
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Fri, Apr 13 2012 6:22 AM
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Scripting Games 2012 comments: #4 Beginners Event 2
Second event is to find running services that can be stopped http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/04/03/2012-scripting-games-beginner-event-2-find-stoppable-running-services.aspx Lets start with the requirements we can pick out of the...
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Thu, Apr 12 2012 3:50 AM
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Scripting Games 2012 Comments: #3 Beginners Event 1
I thought I’d publish a series on how I would go about solving these plus some comments and observations on the submitted scripts. First event of the games http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/04/02/the-2012-scripting-games-beginner...
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Wed, Apr 11 2012 8:48 AM
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Using aliases and the myth of the one-liner
The beginners section of the scripting games can be often answered with one pipeline of PowerShell. Notice that I stated one pipeline not one line Since the early days of PowerShell there has been an almost mystical reverence paid to the concept...
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Tue, Apr 10 2012 1:57 PM
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