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Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Winter 2014 Notice

Due to some vagaries in the system, we have some users who “belong” to multiple teams. I think I’ve corrected the problem so it won’t crop up again. A couple of players’ team memberships were manually reduced to 1. If it was you, and you’re suddenly on the wrong …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Practice Event Rules

On Monday, our practice event should be open at http://ScriptingGames.org. **If you formed a team but only have one player on Monday morning, you will not be able to submit entries. **I’ve noticed several folks who have only a single player but who have set their team membership to …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Winter Scripting Games Team Formation in Full Swing

It looks like Team Formation is in full swing, with more than a dozen teams already registered for The Scripting Games: Winter 2014. Some team tips: If you create a new team, we’re assigning it a default team name. You can immediately change that. Teams start as public, but we’re …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Using Install-WindowsFeature with Offline Source

As you probably know, the Install-WindowsFeature (used to be Add-WindowsFeature; that’s now an alias to Install-) can add Windows roles and features from PowerShell. If your server doesn’t have the installer source on the local disk, then the cmdlet will default to grabbing it from …

Don Jones
Announcements

State of the Org, ending 2013

I wanted to take a moment and wish everyone a very happy new year, and to do a sort of wrap-up of 2013 from PowerShell.org’s perspective. We started 2013 with a bang, including our first-ever PowerShell Summit North America, held on-campus at Microsoft in Redmond. We’ll be returning to …

Richard Siddaway
Scripting Games

Introducing the Judges for Winter 2014 Scripting Games

In the last few years there has been a long list of people judging the Scripting Games. Those people were expected to view as many entries as possible, preferably all, and score the entries as well as providing feedback on the individual entries. That is a ton of work especially when you consider …

Terri Donahue

January Charlotte PowerShell User Group Meeting

Our monthly meeting will be held on January 2nd, 2014. This years Scripting Games is a team based event. What better place to find/join a team than a User Group meeting? We look forward to seeing you there. Here is some additional information about the Winter Scripting Games: Teams can consist of …

Mike F Robbins
Scripting Games

Introducing the Coaches of the 2014 Winter Scripting Games

A few weeks ago, just before the announcement to start recruiting your team for the 2014 Winter Scripting Games, I was contacted by Don Jones and Richard Siddaway about an opportunity to become the Head Coach for the Winter Scripting Games. I was honored to have been contacted and I’m a firm …

Don Jones
Training

My outline for accelerated PowerShell training

When I teach PowerShell, either at a private client or in a public class, I tend to use my own outlines. I’m comfortable with them, and they work really well. They formed the basis for the Microsoft 10961 and 55039 courses, although I had to make some changes to accommodate Microsoft standards …