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2010 Scripting Games

The 2010 Scripting Games are over and the results have been posted here. The scripting games is a fun little competition - well not so little. Similar to a decathlon there are 10 Events, published …

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Powershell Scripting Games - Day 8

Here is my solution for Event 8. Here we had to go through the hard drive and report which folder was using up all the space on the drive. #First we set the path $path = Read-Host "Which folder …

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Powershell Scripting Games - Day 7

Here is my solution for the Beginner Event 7 Here we had to create a logging solution for script # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # NAME: …

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Powershell Scripting Games - Day 6

This is my solution for Beginner Event 6 Here we got a script that was not working and had to debug it. #========================================================================== # NAME: Beg_6.ps1 # …

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Powershell Scripting games - Day 5

Registry keys. Sorry for the silly humor - don’t know how and why Tonto got in there. Thanks to Rob Rohr - for helping me out here. # first we define some variables $ourpath = …

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Powershell Scripting Games - Day 3

This is my solution for Beginner Event 3 Here we have to parse a file and split it into two and rename the original file # Read the input file $InputFile = ".\Shot Put.txt" #Get the content of …

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Powershell Scripting Games - Day 4

This is my solution for Beginner Event 4 Connecting and extracting data from a Access Database and retrieving the best result. Now of course you could get the correct result with an SQL statement, by …

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Powershell Scripting Games - Day 1

If you have not heard about it yet - the Summer Scripting Games 2009 have started. Well I am one day late (sorry!!) but I was trying to figure out the solution for the Event for Day 1 -Beginner - it …

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Powershell Scripting Games - Day 2

Here is my solution for Day 2 - Beginner All the information is retrieved from WMI #First we get the info from WMI $computer = "Localhost" $mycomp = Get-WmiObject Win32_Processor -ComputerName …

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