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Summit Downloads

We’ll be updating this post as presenters turn over materials to us. Most of these files will be ZIPs. If there are any session materials missing - please be patient (we’re uploading as quickly as we can), or contact the presenter directly (as they may not have provided materials to us yet). Driscoll AST Manipulation Prosser WrappingBinaryModule Creating HTML Reports with Style PSHSummit Wrock Unit Testing Powershell.pptx Brundage The Powers of PowerShell Pipeworks.

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Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with over 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency.He works today as an independent author, trainer and consultant.Jeffwritesthe popular Prof. PowerShell column for MPCMag.com, is a regular contributor to the Petri IT Knowledgebase, 4SysOps and the Altaro Hyper-V blog, as well as frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups.

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Scripting Games
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Advanced Practice Event

I want to direct your attention to this forums post, which I think is worth anyone’s time to look through. I’ve left a pretty long reply with some comments on the entry that would also be worth a read. I find that a LOT of folks - like the gentleman who posted his script - have a really good approach to PowerShell scripts. They want to use parameters. They want verbose output.

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Show Your Scripting Games Pride!

If you’re participating in the Scripting Games, log on to the Scripting Games Web site and check out your Profile page. You’ll find a redemption code that can be used to unlock a Participant achievement on the main PowerShell.org Web site!

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Scripting Games
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Comments from the PowerShell.org survey

As you probably know, we’ve been running a survey for PowerShell.org, which helps us both improve the site and create demographic information that makes us appealing to sponsors (who, you know, pay for everything here). We’ve gotten a ton of great feedback. Yeah, we really are reading every single comment you left. Let’s start with the biggies: Maybe some more guest writers for articles? I imagine it’s difficult with all the articles that get posted all over the net every day, but maybe some of those folks (like the scripting guys or scripting wife) can do some to help the Powershell.

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Announcements
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Beginner Practice Event

As you may be aware, we posted Practice Events for the 2013 Scripting Games, in an effort to give people an idea of what the events would look like and involve. There’s been a lively discussion in the PowerShell.org forums about the Beginner Practice, so I thought I’d weigh in. Here’s my solution: Of course, that’s hardly the only way to go about it. I used this approach because it minimizes the use of extra variables, and doesn’t create a script-style approach - it’s a “one-liner,” although I’ve broken it across several physical lines for readability.

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[UPDATED] Last-Minute Summit Info and Changes

Please make sure you’re following this announcements category as you travel to, and attend, the Summit. It’s the best way for us to get out late-breaking news. Registration begins at 8am on Monday, April 22nd, in the lobby of Building 40. Now, sometimes the lobby doors open a wee bit late - so bear with us. The first sessions aren’t until 9am, so there’s plenty of time. Please bring a printout of your ticket from EventBrite, and a photo ID.

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What are Your PowerShell Newbie Gotchas?

I’m putting together a list of common “gotchas” for PowerShell, mainly things that affect newcomers. So far, I’ve got: Piping the output of a Format cmdlet to nearly anything else Using -contains instead of -like Selecting a subset of object properties and then trying to sort/fiter on a now-missing property Wrong syntax for -filter parameters on various commands Commands that don’t produce pipeline output (e.g., piping Export-CSV to something) Using ConvertTo-HTML without -Fragment and appending multiple pages in one file Confusion with ( [ { and the other punctuation Concatenating strings (hard) vs.

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PowerShell for Admins Tips and Tricks
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Scripting Games Competitor Guide / Instructions Update

We’ve made some minor fixes and clarifications to the 2013 Scripting Games Competitors’ Guide and Instructions booklet. I encourage you to download them and review them once more before we kick off next week. In addition, we have some additional prizes for our winners in each event - I’ve updated the prize list post to include this new information. That post, going forward, will be the authoritative prize list. Registration is now open, and the Games will formally kick off on April 22nd.

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Pre-Summit Hang

If you’re attending the Summit and are arriving Sunday afternoon, drop by the Azteca restaurant on 148th. I’ll be there with some of the Board from 5pm, in the bar. It’s informal, pay-your-own-way, and a chance just to say hi before we kick off on Monday. Safe journey!

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