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Don Jones
Scripting Games

Overall Winners of the Scripting Games

**Congratulations to our top winners, **determined by our expert judges (and in this case we also considered their CrowdScores), mikefrobbins and taygibb, who have just won a free pass to Microsoft TechEd Europe or Microsoft TechEd North America 2014. Instructions are in your profile for claiming …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Event 6 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 6 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 …

Don Jones
Announcements

Call for Debates!

As the Scripting Games begin to wind down, I know that we’ve come across a number of divergent opinions, especially in the comments. “You shouldn’t use .NET classes!” says one comment, “you should have done this with a .NET class” says another comment _in the same …

Boe Prox

Scripting Games 2013: Event 6 Notes

We have finally hit the final event of the 2013 Scripting Games! The past 6 weeks have given us many amazing scripts and some that were in need of extra work. Regardless, for those of you who have finished all 6 scripts in your respective, I say Congratulations! You have hit the finish line …

Bartek Bielawski

Last events: my notes and scripts.

Oops! Looks like I totally forgot about posting what I did over here. Sorry! In order of appearance: Event 5 - script Event 5 - notes Event 6 - script Event 6 - notes This is last event, and I would like to thank everybody who took part in this games. Thank you guys for great ideas, inspiration, …

Art Beane

Notes for Event 6

When I read the instructions for event 6, I thought that here’s a tough one. A lot of competitors won’t have access to a test environment with Windows Server 2012 and Virtual Machines that they can actually work with. So, I expected that many of the entries wouldn’t get tested and …

Don Jones
Announcements

More PowerShell v4 and DSC Details

Here’s what I know, much based on a TechEd talk this week: We can expect PowerShell v4 to ship in the Windows Management Framework, as with previous versions. It will be preinstalled on Windows Server 2012 R2 and what they’re calling Windows 8.1; the default execution policy will be …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Event 5 Winners

We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 5 of The Scripting Games 2013! Remember that Event 6 is now open for community voting, and that Event 6 opens up near the end of this week. That’ll be your last chance to contribute, and shortly after TechEd we’ll announce the overall …