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Scripting Games
Winter Scripting Games Tentatively Scheduled
We’re tentatively scheduling the 2014 Winter Scripting Games for 4-6 weeks beginning January 6, 2014. Right now, we’re running functional tests on the platform (which will be all-new and much-improved), and soliciting scenarios from MVPs and PowerShell celebrities. As previously …
Announcements
The New Look of the Scripting Games
I’ve been busily working on a new interface for the Scripting Games - we’re still planning a Winter Games event - and wanted to share progress. You can click this thumbnail to see the full image. The new Scripting Games features movable, resizable panes The new layout features movable, …
Announcements
Seeking Curators for PowerShell eBooks
[UPDATE: I think I’ve finally gotten all the books under curation - but if you’ve an idea for a PowerShell-related ebook, and would like to co-author or even be a principal author (I’ll help out with logistics), still hit me up.] As you may know, PowerShell.org hosts a number of …
Announcements
Nominate Your PowerShell Hero
PowerShell.org is proud to announce a new community recognition program: PowerShell Heroes. We’re looking for your Hero nominations! A PowerShell Hero is someone who you feel does an outstanding job helping the community, perhaps by answering questions in forums (here or elsewhere), writing …
Scripting Games
Winter Scripting Games: More Feedback Needed
So I’m continuing to work through some logistics regarding the Winter Scripting Games (and no, there’s no dates set). The intent of these Games, as I’ve written before, is to offer a collaborative experience. You’ll work in teams of (proposed) 2-6. You have two ways to join a …
Training
My New PowerShell Video Series, Covering v2/v3/v4, Launches
It’s finally starting to be published - my Ultimate PowerShell Video Training Series, covering versions 2 and onward. This series will initially consist of 90 chunks of roughly 20 minutes each, adding up to more than 30 hours total. I’m building each individual video to CLEARLY …
Books
Great Debate: The Conclusion
All this Summer, we’ve been encouraging your feedback in a series of Great Debate posts. Most of the topics came from the 2013 Scripting Games, where we definitely saw people coming down on both sides of these topics. My goal was to pull everyone’s thoughts together into a kind of …
PhillyPoSH 09/05/2013 meeting summary
Author, Scripting Games 2013 winner, and founder of the Mississippi PowerShell User Group, Mike Robbins, gave a presentation entitled “Using CIM Cmdlets and CIM Sessions” via Lync. Afterwards various group members participated in script and tell. A recording of the meeting is available …
Training
Writing Courseware: 10961 PowerShell Class
We’re in the process of working on a 10961C revision to the Microsoft PowerShell course, and I’ve been reviewing the anonymous comments submitted by MCTs and students on 10961A (the “B” rev, which is what was produced after our beta teach, is just now orderable so we …