Windows PowerShell Scripting Sweepstakes.
I think its kinda funny, though, that the first prize teaser in the description of the contest is two "all-expenses paid trips to Redmond, WA to meet the Windows PowerShell team". You know I'm sure I would enjoy meeting you all and everything...but I'd rather just have the Xbox. Unless I can get the xbox AND the trip to Redmond. :)
Submit your entry scripts in one (or all) of 12 categories:
- Active Directory
- SQL Databases
- IIS 6.0/7.0
- Networking
- Partner Category: PowerGadgets and NSoftware Network Management Cmdlets (free downloads)
- Hardware Asset/Hardware Configuration
- Inventory: Hardware, Operating System Settings, Installed Applications and Updates
- Registry/Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- File System (quotas, permissions, etc.) or File Tasks (text files, XML, HTML, etc.)
- Exchange Server 2007
- System Center Operations Manager 2007
- Other Category (any useful script for customizing Windows PowerShell or managing systems via Windows PowerShell; Heck if you want to submit a GUI layered over cmdlets, we will consider that as a valid submission)
You might notice that category #5 mentions PowerGadgets (cmdlets for charting and graphing data) and /n software's NetCmdlets (cmdlets for secure network communication and management). I've been playing with both of these a lot recently, so look for more posts coming from me in the near future about both of these and PowerShell in general.
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