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Don Jones
Announcements

Microsoft announces PowerShell v4, DSC

Yesterday at TechEd North America, Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen began describing features to be delivered with PowerShell v4 in Windows Server 2012 R2 (the company has not yet announced availability dates for either). In particular, a new feature called Desired State Configuration promises to …

Boe Prox

Scripting Games 2013: Event 5 Notes

With week 5 in the books, I can see that everyone just continues to grow and show some great submissions. Of course, nothing is perfect and can always show areas of improvement, but trust me, you are all doing an excellent job! I was hoping to have this article completed prior to now, but between a …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

As The Scripting Games Wrap Up…

We’ve still got, oh, about 48 hours or so for Event 6 submissions, and then of course voting and judging. But I wanted to take a second and let you know what this year’s Games looked like: We’ve logged over 1,100 entries. Almost 13,000 votes. More than 6,700 comments. That’s …

Glenn Sizemore
Announcements

Meet the Scripting Games Judges

I can honestly say that the interactions that I"™ve had with the PowerShell community over the past five years have been some of the most fulfilling. There is something to watching someone learn to script. Some plateau artificially mainly because they don"™t want to leave the GUI. Often …

Glenn Sizemore
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Week 5

I loved this week"™s challenge as it had the right wiggle room to bring out the best in our participants. Of course, this is also the point in the games when we start to get everyone"™s “A” game. At this point even our new competitors are all warmed up and in the zone, and let …

Art Beane

Notes on Event 5

Into the home stretch and the entries just keep getting better! The only advice I’d like to offer this time is to be careful to read the instructions carefully. They included the specific folder where the files were located and I noticed several misinterpretations in the scripts. Some included …

Don Jones
Announcements

"Super Secret" Snover Session at TechEd

So what’s with the “super secret” PowerShell session being given by Jeffrey Snover at TechEd 2013? First, if you’ll be in New Orleans, plan to attend this. The deal is pretty simple: Microsoft has got a lot of information pertaining to v.Next under embargo, which means people …