ScriptingAnswers.com and SAPIEN Technologies announce the ScriptingAnswers.com Automation Challenge 2007! This is your chance to submit your Windows administrative scripts – in any Windows-based scripting language – and win some great prizes.
All your script needs to do is accomplish some Windows administrative task. Our contest page at www.ScriptingAnswers.com/contest.asp includes some tips for writing the best script possible (one sure …
ScriptingAnswers.com is announcing its 2007 Automation Challenge! Details are at www.ScriptingAnswers.com/contest.asp; all you have to do is submit one or two of your best Windows automation scripts, written in VBScript, Windows PowerShell, Batch/CMD, KiXtart, JScript, or whatever. You could win a copy of Windows PowerShell: TFM, PrimalScript 4 Enterprise, a ScriptingAnswers.com University Class-On-Disc, or one of our grand prizes: …
Did you catch my interview on Microsoft TechNet Radio? It’s downloadable from http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=236347 if you’d like to listen; they’ve done a series of scripting-releated episodes recently – be sure to check ’em out.
I’m very pleased and excited to announce that SAPIEN Press’ first print book, Windows PowerShell: TFM?, is off the presses! We’re expecting the books to begin shipping to our Napa, CA headquarters this week. Hopefully they’ll arrive sometime just after the New Year, and we’ll begin fulfilling orders. If you’ve ordered via www.ScriptingOutpost.com, your book will go out …
Here’s an AWESOME resource: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/convert/default.mspx, the Scripting Guys’ complete guide to VBScript functions… or, more specifically, how to do each VBScript function in Windows PowerShell! It’s available online, or you can download the whole thing as a Word document. For each VBScript function or statement, you’ll see a Windows PowerShell version along with a brief explanation. Not that there’s …
Happy Holidays from SAPIEN Technologies! In celebration of the season, we’d like to offer you a special gift: A free sampler pack of Snippets to add into PrimalScript (or use independently, if you prefer – they’re just text files)! This 47-Snippet sampler pack includes snippets for VBScript, Windows PowerShell, KiXtart, and even HTAs, and normally retails for $50.00. But if …
A new episode of the ScriptingAnswers.com Audio Network is now online for your listening enjoyment – including the third installment of our new trivia challenge. Check it out!
As if giving away Snippets wasn’t enough, we’re now offering you a free iPod Shuffle. All you have to do is pick up the world’s best script development environment: PrimalScript 4.1 Enterprise. Or, learn to use VBScript to automate Windows administration by buying the ScriptingAnswers.com University Full Set. Either way, a specially-engraved iPod Shuffle will be yours …
As posted previously, Don Jones is now exclusive to Microsoft TechNet Magazine, and the first of his new Windows PowerShell columns is now online and in print. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/, scroll down to the “Columns” section, and look for Don’s name. New columns will be available each month.
Don’t forget that SAPIEN’s Jeffery Hicks is also in print: He now …
Don Jones will be hosting a new series of monthly TechNet Webcasts, beginning December 19th. These Webcasts are free, although they do require advance registration in order to attend. Learn more about the first one, an “Overview of Windows PowerShell,” and register now.
Don’t forget that Don’s past VBScript-oriented Webcasts are still available for free as on-demand downloads …
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