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As of right now, we’ve got almost 1900 votes on entries in the Scripting Games. Remember that each vote is a “pointlet” (see the PowerShell tie-in we did there?), which is basically a raffle ticket in our prize lottery. But… there’s a secret about the lottery. …
June Blender is was a senior programming writer on the Windows PowerShell team at Microsoft from Windows PowerShell 1.0 ““ 3.0. You see her work every time you type Get-Help for the core modules. She’s now working on the Windows Azure Active Directory SDK team, and she remains an avid …
Looking for not-so-expert solution for Event 1 in both categories? Wonder how one of the judges would do it, if he had a chance? Want to return favor and tell me what I could do better and what I’m doing wrong? Don’t hesitate. 🙂 I decided it may be helpful to post my solutions before I …
Following on from my previous post we"™ll look at how the two types of cmdlets compare for accessing remote machines. I used a similar format to the previous tests but was accessing a remote machine. First off was the WMI cmdlet ““ using DCOM to access the remote Windows 2012 server …
Challenge #1 of Scripting Games 2013 is coming to a close. I can’t wait to see the results! I solved both the Beginner and Advanced versions just for practice and I learned a lot along the way. They’re not easy, but if you haven’t yet tried them, go for it. And be sure to review …
The MEAP for AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been updated with the release of chapter 9 on managing group policies
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 …
