Busy, busy, busy
A very busy time coming up in PowerShell land with the first PowerShell Summit kicking off in just over a week"™s time. The 2013 Scripting Games will also be starting very soon. I"™ll try and post about both of them as time allows
Articles
PowerShell articles, tutorials, and guides from community experts.
Creating a new disk
I really like Windows Server Core. The concept has come of age in Windows 2012. I needed to add a new disk to a virtual machine – that"™s easy using the Hyper-V cmdlets. But what about formating the disk. A module new to Windows 2012 & Windows can be used. Its the Storage module. I"™ve …
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server 2012 has a PowerShell enabled backup utility. When you enable the feature you get a module called WindowsServerBackup. It has the cmldets you would expect for creating and managing backups. No surprise you may say as this was avialable in Windows 2008 R2. The difference with Windows …
Announcements
[UPDATED] Time is running out to own a piece of PowerShell.org
Believe it or not, we are coming up on our one year anniversary, and will be winding down our capital campaign. If you’d like to become a stockholder in PowerShell.org, you will have until June 1st May 15 to do so. Read the details at https://powershell.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=239 …
Running workflows
I tripped over an interesting issue recently regarding the running of PowerShell workflows. Consider the world"™s simplest workflow workflow test-w1 {“hello world”} If I run this on a 32bit Windows 8 PowerShell machine ““ it works If I run this on Windows 2012 (64bit) on …
PhillyPoSH 04/04/2013 meeting summary
Jason Helmick remotely gave a demo of Sapien"™s Powershell Studio Ed Wilson, The Scripting Guy, gave a presentation on the different ways to remotely manage a Windows 8 workstation (remotely via the Charlotte PowerShell User Group) Announcements The Scripting games start on 04/25/2013, make …
AD Management in a Month of Lunches
The MEAP marches on with chapter 8 now released: Chapter 8 ““ creating Group Policies details from http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/
Scripting Games
2013 Scripting Games Judges
As described in the 2013 Scripting Games Competitors’ Guide, our expert judges this year will not be awarded numeric scores. Frankly, folks seem more interested in having their entries peer-reviewed than just getting a number - and why not? Expert review is a great way to learn! Unfortunately, …
Scripting Games
2013 Scripting Games' Mighty Panel of Celebrity Judges
As revealed in the 2013 Scripting Games Competitors’ Guide, the 2013 Games will invite the community in general to award numeric votes for entries. Our expert judges will instead focus on commentary, helping make the Games into an even better learning experience. They’ll be commenting …
PowerShell for Admins
Coming: Tips for the Scripting Games
In preparation for the upcoming Scripting Games, the April 2013 issue of the free PowerShell.org TechLetter will feature tips, examples, and advice for helping you do the best in the Games! Remember that the Competitor Guide is now available, so you can start reviewing how the Games will be graded …