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Expert Solutions: Beginner Event 4 of the 2010 Scripting Games

 (Note: These solutions were written for Beginner Event 4 of the 2010 Scripting Games.)  Beginner Event 4 (Windows PowerShell) Gary Siepser is a senior premier field engineer (PFE) for Microsoft. He is a Microsoft Certified Master for Exchange Server 2007. As a PFE, he spends most of his time in front of Microsoft&...

2010 Scripting Games: Beginner Event 4–Retrieving an Environmental Variable

  Note: We are no longer accepting entries for this event. See the due dates page for a list of all event due dates.About This Event  Event ScenarioYou are using the MSI provider to install a software package, and you need to ensure that the computer upon which the package will install has at least two processors. For this ...