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Reusing PowerShell Code—What is Best?
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Summary : In this Weekend Scripter blog, Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses considerations for code reuse. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It has been really fun these past few weeks reviewing all of the...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 10: Use a PowerShell Proxy Function to Create Temporary Files
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Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP Shay Levy shows how to use a proxy function to easily create temporary files and solve Advanced Event 10 in the 2011 Scripting Games. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. As we wrap up the 2011 Scripting Games...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 10: Use Easy PowerShell Code to Time Script Operations
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over 1 year ago
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Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP Marco Shaw solves beginner event 10 in the 2011 Scripting Games and shows how to time script operations Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Marco Shaw is the author of the expert commentary for Beginner Event...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 9: Use a PowerShell Function to Simplify Logging in Your Scripts
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Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Arnaud Pettijean, shows how to create a function to simplify script logging while solving 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 9. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Arnaud Petitjean is our expert commentator...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 9:Use a PowerShell Function to Simplify Script Logging
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Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Jonathan Medd, shows beginners how to create a function to simplify script logging in Event 9 of the 2011 Scripting Games. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have Jonathan Medd to provide his solution...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 8: Use PowerShell to Resize Images and to Remove EXIF Data
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Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Marc van Orsouw, resizes images and removes EXIF metadata while solving 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 8. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Marc van Orsouw (MoW) is our expert commentator for Advanced...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 8: Use PowerShell to Write Disk File Information for Excel
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Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Doug Finke, gathers file information and writes it to a CSV file that is readable in Excel while solving 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 8. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Doug Finke is the expert commentator...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 7: Use PowerShell and Regex to Get Twitter IDs from a Web Page
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over 1 year ago
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Summary : Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, Tome Tanasovski, uses regular expressions to get Twitter IDs from a web page while solving Advanced Event 7 in 2011 Scripting Games. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Tome Tanasovski is the expert...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 7: Use PowerShell to Get the Number of Days Between Dates
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over 1 year ago
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Summary : Microsoft PFE, Michael Frommhold, uses Windows PowerShell to get the number of days between two dates as he solves Beginner Event 7 in one line of code. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Michael Frommhold is the author for the expert...
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Final Results: Winners for the 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Category
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Top Submitters from the Advanced Events User Name Total Points Scripts Rated Total Ratings Bartek Bielawski 39.92 10 27 Milo 39.00 10...
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Final Results: Winners for the 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Category
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Top Submitters from the Beginner Events User Name Total Points Scripts Rated Total Ratings KSchulte 37.67 10 22 Sadie Trest 37.50 10 ...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 6: Use PowerShell to Get Twitter IDs from a Web Page
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over 1 year ago
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Summary : Microsoft Windows PowerShell senior software engineer, Lee Holmes, solves 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 6 and gets Twitter IDs from a web page. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have Lee Holmes as our expert commentator...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6: Parse the Windows Update Log for Errors with PowerShell
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Summary : Microsoft MVP, Sean Kearney, uses Windows PowerShell to solve 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6 and parse the Windows update log for errors. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have Sean Kearney to provide his solution...
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Modify the PowerShell ISE to Remove Aliases from Scripts
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Summary : In this weekend scripter blog, learn how to modify the Windows PowerShell ISE so that it automatically removes aliases from a script. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. The PowerShell Deep Dive in Las Vegas, Nevada...
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Grand prize: Randomly Drawn Prize Winner
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We will send you an email with the pertinent information about your prize in the next few days. Thank you for entering the 2011 Scripting Games . A special thank you to our wonderful sponsor Microsoft Tech Net Subscriptions for making this prize...
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Use Regular Expression Pattern when Parsing PowerShell Script
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Summary : Part three in the series about replacing Windows PowerShell aliases with full cmdlet names uses a regular expression pattern and the tokenizer. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. With the final scripts uploaded...
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Tenth Beginner Leaderboard of the 2011 Scripting Games
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Top Submitters from the Beginner Events User Name Total Points Scripts Rated Total Ratings KSchulte 38.17 10 18 Andre Gibel - CH 35.00 ...
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Tenth Advanced Leaderboard of the 2011 Scripting Games
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Top Submitters from the Advanced Events User Name Total Points Scripts Rated Total Ratings Bartek Bielawski 40.25 10 22 Glenn Sizemore 37.83 ...
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Day 10: Randomly Drawn Prize Winners
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We will send you an email with the pertinent information about your prize in the next few days. Thank you for entering the 2011 Scripting Games . A special thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making these prizes possible. Please be sure to visit the...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 5: Use PowerShell to Get Information Prior to Windows Upgrade
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over 1 year ago
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Summary : Microsoft MVP, Richard Siddaway, solves 2011 Windows PowerShell Scripting Games Advanced Event 5 and gets information prior to a Windows upgrade. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Richard Siddaway is our expert commentator today....
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 5: Use PowerShell Objects to Gather Basic Computer Information
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over 1 year ago
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Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks solves 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 5, and returns objects with desktop configuration information. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have Jeffery Hicks as our expert commentator...
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Day 9: Randomly Drawn Prize Winners
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We will send you an email with the pertinent information about your prize in the next few days. Thank you for entering the 2011 Scripting Games . A special thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making these prizes possible. Please be sure to visit the...
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Ninth Advanced Leaderboard of the 2011 Scripting Games
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Top Submitters from the Advanced Events User Name Total Points Scripts Rated Total Ratings Glenn Sizemore 26.33 8 15 Jason Hofferle 23.50 ...
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Ninth Beginner Leaderboard of the 2011 Scripting Games
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Top Submitters from the Beginner Events User Name Total Points Scripts Rated Total Ratings MarkDW 30.00 10 19 Andrew Mello 29.00 10 ...
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Expert Solution for 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 4: Use PowerShell to Find Services Hiding in the SvcHost Process
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over 1 year ago
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Summary : Microsoft research software developer, Chris O'Prey, solves Windows PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 4 and finds services that are running in the SvcHost process. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. With us today with...
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