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As of Monday at 5pm Pacific time (which is Tuesday morning, 00:00 hours GMT), the 2013 Scripting Games’ first event will conclude. That means the first event is open for community voting - so get on it! Remember, some of the best prizes - including a free pass to the 2014 PowerShell Summit - …
As a SQL Server DBA or SQL Server developer sometimes is necessary to know whether two tables have equal schemas or not. For example, a few months ago I had to consolidate two SQL Server instances in just one. One of the main problems were the collisions between Databases and Tables. I found out …
One question that came up at the summit was the comparative speed of execution of the new CIM cmdlets vs the old WMI cmdlets. No of us knew the answer because we"™d never tried measuring the speed. I decided to perform some tests. This first test is accessing the local machine. In both cases …
I was thinking on the plane back from the PowerShell summit about the CRUD activities. They are a concept we have inherited from the database world: C = Create R = Read U = Update D= Delete Create, Update and Delete correspond directly to the PowerShell verbs ““ New,Set and Remove …
The 2013 Scripting Games kicked off during the PowerShell summit. Event 1 is open and you can submit entries up until 23:59:59 GMT on 29 April 2013. Voting on the entries starts at at midnight on 30 April. You can enter and you can vote on the entries. This is a community games run by powershell.org …
I"™d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended the PowerShell Summit this last week. The Summit was a success ““ in no small part due to you. Your questions, and discussions, are what this is all about. It was a pleasure meeting you all and I hope to return next year …
Here’s the schedule for our Forums migration: From Now until May 4th, the old forums will remain online and in-use. However, you should consider creating an account here on the “new” site (distinguishable by the different visual theme). Your new account will have no connection to …
So, we did have one enterprising fella use his Webcam to record the Summit sessions he attended. Once he gets with me, we’ll get those online so you can see. We are trying to think really hard about formal recordings for next time. It depends a lot on what folks want. For example: Pointing a …
Ed Wilson is the Microsoft Scripting Guy and a well-known scripting expert. He writes the twice daily Hey Scripting Guy! blog (the number 1 blog on TechNet). He has also spoken at TechEd and at the Microsoft internal TechReady conferences. He is a Microsoft-certified trainer who has delivered a …
Welcome to Scripting Games 2013. Here’s my favorite hint for improving your functions and scripts. Avoid writing to the console or formatting your output. Instead use PSCustomObject in Windows PowerShell 3.0 and leave the formatting to the end user. Windows PowerShell provides lots of great …
