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Read the Question

When my children were at school and going off for a test or exam the last thing I told them was read the question. It seems this needs to be repeated for the Scripting Games.  The Beginners Event 1 involved MOVING files from one server to another. I have seen a significant number of answers...

Backticks are baaaaaad; don’t do backticks

The voting/judging process has started for event 1 in the 2013 Scripting Games.  What I’m going to be doing over the next few weeks is point out some of the things that I’ve noticed when judging. Some will be good things that I think you should adopt; others will be bad things that you should...

AD Management in a Month of Lunches– chapter 9 in MEAP

The MEAP for AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been updated with the release of chapter 9 on managing group policies

Time for D-CRUD?

I was thinking on the plane back from the PowerShell summit about the CRUD activities. They are a concept we have inherited from the database world: C = Create R = Read U = Update D= Delete Create, Update and Delete correspond directly to the PowerShell verbs – New,Set and Remove...

Scripting Games 2013 have started

The 2013 Scripting Games kicked off during the PowerShell summit.  Event 1 is open and you can submit entries up until 23:59:59 GMT on 29 April 2013.  Voting on the entries starts at at midnight on 30 April. You can enter and you can vote on the entries.  This is a community...

PowerShell Summit–thank you

I’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended the PowerShell Summit this last week.  The Summit was a success – in no small part due to you. Your questions, and discussions, are what this is all about.

It was a pleasure meeting you all and I hope to return next...

PowerShell Deep Dives–another MEAP release

Manning have released another set of chapters in their early access program for PowerShell Deep Dives.

If you have an interest in PowerShell I would strongly urge you to buy a copy. It has chapters from a number...

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

Manning Deal of the Day – April 6 2013

My PowerShell and WMI book will be Manning’s deal of the day for 6 April 2013.  The deal will go live at Midnight US ET and will stay active for about 48 hours.

This is your chance to get the book with a 50% discount.

Use code dotd0406au at

PowerShell excerpt week

The Scripting Guy is running a series of excerpts from the PowerShell books published by Manning.  Today is PowerShell in Practice