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MY 2014 Public POWERCLASS is Now Open for Registration

I’m going to be running a 3-day POWERCLASS April 2, 3, and 4 near Raleigh-Durham, NC! You can get full details on my company’s website, including pricing and class descriptions. Don’t leave near Raleigh-Durham? Well, it’s a fun place, and not that expensive to visit. More importantly, I’m not going to be doing a huge road-show and visiting a bunch of cities. Right now, my schedule is almost full through _September, _so this may well be the only public class I do in 2014.

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Training
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The Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Update on Event 1 Scores

Note that scorecards for the first event will not be accurate immediately on Sunday when judging closes; we have the scores in the database, but they’re not tagged in a way the system can find them. The bug has been fixed, but I need to go through and manually re-tag the first day’s scorecards, and it’s going to take a couple of days. This also affect the leaderboard display. I hope to have it fixed over the weekend.

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Scripting Games
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Scripting Games Winter 2014 – WE HAS PRIZES!!

Many thanks to SAPIEN Technologies for providing - completely without us asking - first-place and overall-best prizes for The Scripting Games! We’ll have copies of PowerShell Studio (x2), PrimalScript (x2), and the entire SAPIEN Software Suite (x1) for our overall top-scoring team at the end of the Games. Team members can decide how to divvy up the loo themselves. Remember that Event 1 is coming up soon: Instructions available 2014-01-18 00:00:00 UTC Entries accepted starting 2014-01-19 00:00:00 UTC All entries due by 2014-01-26 00:00:00 UTC **You must be registered and on a team before we begin accepting entries, or you will not be able to participate.

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Scripting Games
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PowerShell Summit North America 2014 – Some More Reasons to Register!

PowerShell Summit North America Registration is in full swing, and we’ve got about 50 more spots to reach our break-even goal. Hopefully, those of you that have been holding off for budgetary reasons are now “weapons free” and can plan to join us in April 2014! Confirmed PowerShell Product Team Presenters We’ve confirmed a great set of speakers from the team itself, including Jason Shirk, Lee Holmes, Kenneth Hanson, and Hemant Manhawar.

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Announcements PowerShell Summit
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Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Team Discussion Tips

When you’re logged into the Games, you’ll notice that clicking on your team pulls up a “team discussion” box. That’s a shared discussion area for you and your team. However, if you click on one of the files you’ve uploaded, you’ll see the discussion turn into a “File Discussion.” We retain a separate thread for each file you upload, so that you and your team can discuss that file specifically.

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Scripting Games
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Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Teams in Danger

Note that as of the time of this post (about 2pm Pacific on Jan 5th), the following teams do not have enough players to participate in the upcoming Practice Event: Lake County Hoosiers A Annihilators AZPOSH Avengers PeopleTecIsAwesome Time Travel is Dangerous Kotagiris wow. much power. very shell. Blasters CCC Anteaters Barracudas Hypothermia Bearcats #PSexec Avalanche Bull Gators Alligators To reiterate: **You must have 2-6 players signed into the Web site and joined to your team, or you will be unable to post entries.

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Scripting Games
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Script for Setting Up and Demoing a DSC Pull Server

DSC Setup and Demo Scripts I recently set up a virtual machine to use for Desired State Configuration (DSC) demos. I wanted to make the demo-ing fairly brainless, as DSC requires a number of setup steps to get a pull server running. So I took some demo scripts Microsoft offered from TechEd 2013, updated them to work with Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM, and thought I’d offer them to you.

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PowerShell for Admins
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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 team, post in the forum and I’ll fix it for you. For everyone else, when you go to the event list you may be redirected to a “You’re on multiple teams” page, and asked to click the team you wish to remain on.

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Scripting Games
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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 “private,” meaning nobody can join you unless you provide them with your invitation code. **Your team must have 2-6 players to participate in the Games.

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Scripting Games
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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 allowing you to make them private. This removed the team from the “join up” list, and gives you an invite code.

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Scripting Games