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PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Videos Online

The session recordings are now online! We did miss a few of the videos. The few 2-hour sessions scheduled in Room 406 were not recorded (and weren’t planned to be; we only have two sets of recording equipment, although for 2017 we’re adding a third set). And, we had a couple that had video problems on-site and weren’t recordable. We hope you’ll appreciate that our priority on-site is to provide a great experience for the people who were there, and stopping everything to make sure we get a recording isn’t always practical.

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2016-March Scripting Games Wrap-Up

Carlo really put a brain-twister out for our March 2016 Puzzle. Also, as a note, we’re eagerly awaiting submissions of next month’s puzzle, so don’t delay in handing that in. Here’s how you can contribute to the community’s favorite scripting game. Official Solution It’s probably easiest just to share his solutions as actual script files, so here’s both the Beginner and Advanced versions that he provided, as a ZIP: Solutions

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Calling all Scripting Games Puzzles!

Have you been enjoying our monthly Scripting Games puzzles? Want to keep them going? Then it’s time to jump in and contribute! PowerShell.org is a community site, which means it only works when community makes it work! So come up with your Scripting Games puzzles (you’ve seen the different kinds we’ve done)! Your submission should include: The puzzle itself. This can include a narrative, example output you want people to achieve, etc.

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2016-March Scripting Games Puzzle

Our March 2016 puzzle comes from Carlo Mancini. We’re actively interested in receiving Scripting Games puzzles from members of the community - submit yours, along with an official solution, to us at admin@ via email!

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Official PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016 Agenda Now Available

The agenda is available on the official event page! Please note that this is subject to change, but we’ll update that same copy so you can just refer to it. We’ll have handouts on site, but we recommend having an offline copy of the PDF, or your own printout, as a backup. It’s worth reviewing this in advance, so you can start planning your own personal agenda. Don’t forget that the registration site (https://eventloom.

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PowerShellSummit.org Registration Status & Extension

So, we have 3 seats left, which isn’t much - and we contacted our venue, and they said they they’d let us bring in those people more last-minute (in terms of us setting food and space requirements), but there’s a small uncharge of $100 per person. So those last three seats are on sale at PowerShellSummit.org, through the morning of March 11th, and the new pricing should go into effect sometime tonight.

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Last Chance for PowerShellSummit.org Registration

Here’s a sort of last call: Registration ends on March 1st, 2016, giving you just about ten days from today (Feb 18th). Additionally, we’ve got just around 24 seats remaining. About 5 of those are available as 3-day seats, and about 19 as 4-day seats. We’ll try and slide that availability around so you’re not forced into one or the other, but this is basically last call for attendees either way.

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Planning for PowerShell+DevOps Global Summit 2017… Need Your Opinion

So, we’re already doing some planning for the 2017, 2018, and 2019 events. Because, you know. We do that around here ;). One thing we’re considering is an option to lock-in venue pricing for that three-year period, helping to ensure we can keep our pricing at around $950 for a 3-day event. Doing so requires a hotel room block lock-in as well. On the plus side, that’ll lock in hotel pricing for 3 years too, which is great in terms of affordability and predictability.

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2016-February Scripting Games Puzzle

Although we have a couple of puzzles queued up, we’ll be taking a brief break for the month of February 2016. So, no puzzle this month! However, **we are in need of puzzles, including sample solutions and explanations. **This is a community effort, so if you’ve never contributed - now’s a great time to start! Drop an email to admin@ this domain. Include a ZIP file with your puzzle, solution, and explanation - all in plain-text files, please.

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PowerShellSummit.org Registration Status for 2-Feb-2016 (also, recordings)

OK, here’s a quick update of where we’re at with registration for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016. We’d originally scheduled 150 seats for the April event, inclusive of speakers. Yesterday (1st Feb) we opened 3-day sales (previously, only 4-day seats had been available), and are now at 126 total attendees. So we’ve got 24 seats of our original space remaining. The venue assures us that we can accommodate at least another 25 people, possible as many as 50 more.