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March 30, 2015Mar 30, 201503/30/15Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to determine if a hypervisor is present
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been trying to use WMI to determine if a server has the hypervisor present. I found the WMI class,
April 12, 2012Apr 12, 201204/12/12
Summary: In Advanced Event 9, you are required to perform a hardware inventory and write the information to an XML file.
About this event
Division
Advanced
Date of Event
4/12/2012 12:01 AM
Due Date
4/19/2012 12:01 AM
Event scenario
You are a network manager at a medium-sized organization,
April 11, 2012Apr 11, 201204/11/12
Summary: In Beginner Event 8, you are required to determine if a computer is a desktop computer or a laptop computer.
About this event
Division
Beginner
Date of Event
4/11/2012 12:01 AM
Due Date
4/18/2012 12:01 AM
Event scenario
You are the desktop manager at a midsized enterprise company.
December 14, 2011Dec 14, 201112/14/11Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to get software installation locations, and to uninstall software from remote computers.
Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a dumb application that we have to use at work. The company has released a new version of this application,
September 27, 2011Sep 27, 201109/27/11Summary: Create a custom object from WMI to display processor and operating system information using Windows PowerShell.
Hey, Scripting Guy! Your script yesterday was pretty cool. However, in addition to obtaining information about the processor, I also need to know operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit,
September 26, 2011Sep 26, 201109/26/11Summary: Learn how to get the number of processor cores via WMI and Windows PowerShell.
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to perform an audit of computers on our network. Specifically, I am tasked with obtaining CPU information. I need the processor speed,
July 19, 2011Jul 19, 201107/19/11Summary: Learn how to use the BSonPoSH Windows PowerShell module to simplify Active Directory management tasks.
Hey, Scripting Guy! I am wondering if there are any modules that can help me with routine, daily administration tasks. I really hate to re-invent the wheel,
April 8, 2011Apr 8, 201104/8/11Summary: Advanced Event 5 of the 2011 Scripting Games uses Windows PowerShell to determine if a computer is upgradable to the Windows 7 operating system.
About this event
Division
Advanced
Date of Event
4/8/2011 12:15 AM
Due Date
4/15/2011 12:15 AM
Event scenario
Your company is planning an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7,
February 5, 2009Feb 5, 200902/5/09I give a lot of presentations, and the background picture of my baby alpaca, while fascinating to me, probably does not have the same level of attraction to my clients. I know I can mouse around and change the desktop picture to some bland color,
December 1, 2008Dec 1, 200812/1/08Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to obtain some basic configuration information from my computers on the network. It would be nice if the script would write the output in an HTML file that we could copy to our internal Web server.
