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Determine Hardware Type – 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games Beginner Event #8

Apr 20, 2012 · PowerShell Scripting Games ·

Write a script to determine if a computer is a laptop or a desktop from a hardware prospective and display the output on the console. If this requires admin rights, you should detect if it is running as an admin or standard user. Extra points for writing a simple function that returns a boolean. I kind of figured this …

Enabled Logs with Data – 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games Beginner Event #7

Apr 19, 2012 · PowerShell Scripting Games ·

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Display a list of enabled logs that contain data. Do not display errors. Include hidden logs. Display the complete log name and number of entries. Sort by the logs with the most entries in them. My research on this one lead me to the Use PowerShell to Query All Event Logs for Recent Events blog article on the Hey, …

Working with WMI – 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games Beginner Event #6

Apr 18, 2012 · PowerShell Scripting Games ·

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #6 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. Write a PowerShell script to determine the uptime of servers by using the WMI class WMI32_OperatingSystem. The script should display the server name, how …

Finding Application Errors – 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games Beginner Event 5

Apr 17, 2012 · PowerShell Scripting Games ·

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #5 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. Your manager has task you with producing a report of applications that are causing errors on your servers. This report should display the source and number …

Just Passing Thru – 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games Beginner Event 4

Apr 13, 2012 · PowerShell Scripting Games ·

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #4 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. The key to this one is figuring out how to format the output as shown in the screen shot in the event scenario which is similar to the one in the image …

Toughest Event Yet – 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games Beginner Event #3

Apr 12, 2012 · PowerShell Scripting Games ·

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #3 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. This was the toughest event out of the first three for me. I spent a lot of time researching how to check permissions because part of the first design point …

Get-Method | My-Madness | 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games Beginner Event #2

Apr 11, 2012 · PowerShell Scripting Games ·

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The details of the event scenario and the design points for Beginner Event #2 of the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games can be found on the Hey, Scripting Guys! Blog. Listed below are my notes about the requirements and design points: Find all services that are running and can be stopped. The command must work against …

My Approach to the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games Beginner Event #1

Apr 10, 2012 · PowerShell Scripting Games ·

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Listed below are my notes about the requirements and design points: Computers run Windows 7 and servers run Windows 2008 R2. They’re all in one domain. PowerShell remoting is enabled on all computers (both servers and desktops). Use PowerShell to retrieve the top ten processes based on the memory working set. There’s …