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Please join us on a special date in July. This month our meeting will be on July 11, 2013 instead of our normal first Thursday of the month due to the holiday. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson will make a presentation on DSC Desired State Configuration for PowerShell V4. Sign up at the following link in Meetup so we know how many will be there and we can have adequate food for all.
In the aftermath of The Scripting Games, it’s clear we need to have several community discussions - thus, I present to you, The Great Debates. These will be a series of posts wherein I’ll outline the basic situation, and you’re encouraged to debate and discuss in the comments section. The general gist is that, during the Games, we saw different people voting “up” and “down” for the exact same techniques. So… which one is right?
**Congratulations to our top winners, **determined by our expert judges (and in this case we also considered their CrowdScores), mikefrobbins and taygibb, who have just won a free pass to Microsoft TechEd Europe or Microsoft TechEd North America 2014. Instructions are in your profile for claiming your prize. It is transferrable, but must be claimed/transferred by the end of July. Congratulations to our top voters/commenters, Klaus_Schulte and Poshsg0606. They were chosen randomly for this award, although I did review their comments and scores to ensure they were all meaningful and consistent.
We’re pleased to announce the winners for Event 6 of The Scripting Games 2013! Winners: You can log into The Scripting Games Web site and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the prize provider (they will need the redemption code). All prizes must be claimed by the end of July 2013.
As the Scripting Games begin to wind down, I know that we’ve come across a number of divergent opinions, especially in the comments. “You shouldn’t use .NET classes!” says one comment, “you should have done this with a .NET class” says another comment _in the same entry. _Fun. It’s great to see those differences - but it’d be better to discuss them. So I’m asking everyone in the Games: Go through your comments on all of your entries.
We have finally hit the final event of the 2013 Scripting Games! The past 6 weeks have given us many amazing scripts and some that were in need of extra work. Regardless, for those of you who have finished all 6 scripts in your respective, I say Congratulations! You have hit the finish line sprinting hard to the end! Now you can sit back and know that you made it and have learned (hopefully) some great things along the way.
http://blog.powershell.no/2013/06/08/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-6/Â has Jan Egil’s thoughts on the final event.
Oops! Looks like I totally forgot about posting what I did over here. Sorry! In order of appearance: Event 5 - script Event 5 - notes Event 6 - script Event 6 - notes This is last event, and I would like to thank everybody who took part in this games. Thank you guys for great ideas, inspiration, feedback… It was really educational experience for me (as it was in the past), and I hope it was educational for you too.
When I read the instructions for event 6, I thought that here’s a tough one. A lot of competitors won’t have access to a test environment with Windows Server 2012 and Virtual Machines that they can actually work with. So, I expected that many of the entries wouldn’t get tested and intended to forgive minor errors that would have shown up in testing. Well, there was one thing that really surprised me.
Here’s what I know, much based on a TechEd talk this week: We can expect PowerShell v4 to ship in the Windows Management Framework, as with previous versions. It will be preinstalled on Windows Server 2012 R2 and what they’re calling Windows 8.1; the default execution policy will be RemoteSigned, and on the server OS Remoting will be enabled by default. Microsoft’s past policy has been “current version and two back,” and if they follow that then we’ll get WMF 4.
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