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OK, we finally have a huge batch of PowerShell.org and DevOpsCollective.org laptop stickers! These are great, heavy-duty, removable stickers for laptop and every day use. Here’s how you can get yours - follow these instructions carefully! United States First, this offer is only valid until …
Long has it been known how to easily document your PowerShell source code simply by embedding properly formatted documentation comments right along side your code, making maintenance relatively painless… But if you advanced to writing your PowerShell cmdlets in C#, you have largely been on …
I love working in AD (Active Directory) with PowerShell. I find that I have had to really dig in to learn some of the syntax nuances that you need to understand to really mine data and change configurations within Active Directory. This puzzle reflects the kind of situation that people have to deal …
We’ve uploaded the results of the Verified Effective: PowerShell Toolmaker exam, which was administered at the recent PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016. Note that this exam has, for a couple of years now, been available only as an on-site, in-person, proctored experience - we do not offer …
Trying to get your code to look good when reading it later can be tricky For line breaks in function scripts, there are two out-of-the-box options: First, you can break a line after the pipe key, which is an elegant and easy-to-read approach. Second, you can arbitrarily break a line with a back tick …
A couple of weeks ago, DevOps Collective (PowerShell.org’s parent non-profit organization) announced the availability of the ‘GetGoing’ IT Ops Education Program and Scholarship. For those of you who may not have yet heard, DevOps Collective and Pluralsight have partnered together …
Here is the long awaited post of my third installment of where I revisit my script and provide some explanation as to why I did the things I did in regards to synchronizing Active directory groups. As always feedback is welcome. Link is here
After authoring last month scripting games puzzle, which involved some scripting around the Unicode standard, I decided to have some fun and write a PowerShell module which interacts directly with the online Unicode Database (UCD) to retrieve the main properties of characters. Using this module you …
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 …
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 …
