How Do I Enter?
It’s pretty simple: Submit a Windows PowerShell script. Scripts should carry out a system administration task in Windows, and must do more than simply call a Windows PowerShell Cmdlet. For example, this “script” would not qualify because it does nothing more than call the Get-Date Cmdlet:
get-date
You can submit scripts in any (or all) of 12 different categories, including the following:
| • | Active Directory | | • | SQL Databases | | • | IIS 6.0/7.0 | | • | Networking | | • | Partner Category: PowerGadgets and NSoftware Network Management Cmdlets | | • | 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 |
You can enter multiple scripts and in multiple categories; however, you can only win one prize package. Prize winners will be randomly selected from all eligible entries in each category. Grand prize winners will be randomly selected from the complete pool of eligible entries. For a complete breakdown of prizes to be awarded per category, click here.
And click here for complete contest rules.
Note. For various legal reasons the big prizes are limited to US residents only; sorry. However, anyone is eligible to win a T-shirt or a book.
| | | | Steps for Entering the Windows PowerShell Contest | Read the Contest Rules
Complete contest rules are available here. You don’t have to read them, but it wouldn’t hurt. |
 | Submit Your Script
As soon as you’ve got a script (or two or three: you can submit more than one entry) click here to start the submission process. |
Windows PowerShell Scripting Resources |
What Can I Win?
Two grand prize winners will receive a three-day, two-night trip (for one) to Redmond, Washington, to meet the Windows PowerShell team.
Other prizes include:
| • | 12 Microsoft Xbox 360 Core gaming systems | | • | 36 copies of PowerGadgets | | • | 36 copies of the book Windows PowerShell: TFM | | • | 24 copies of PrimalScript 4.1 for Windows PowerShell | | • | 36 Windows PowerShell T-Shirts |
About the Prizes | Xbox 360 Core
"Fusing powerful hardware, software and services, Xbox 360 fully engages you in a gaming experience that is more expansive, dramatic, and lifelike, where the possibilities are limitless and your imagination knows no boundaries."
Oh: and you can play some wicked cool games on the Xbox to boot! |
| PowerGadgets
"PowerGadgets lets you use Windows PowerShell to create multiple gadgets like charts, gauges and maps on your desktop. This allows you to make powerful dashboard applications that are tightly integrated with your desktop with minimal software requirements, absolutely no coding requirements and easily redistributable."
Trust us: PowerGadgets is a very cool way to report data. Very cool. |
| Sapien PrimalScript 4.1
What’s new in PrimalScript 4.1? How about complete support for Windows PowerShell, including full syntax color-coding for PowerShell scripts, making your scripts easier to read and making certain types of bugs easier to spot? And let’s not forget PrimalSense, which puts all of Windows PowerShell’s commands and aliases (as well as their properties and methods) at your fingertips.
Take it from the Scripting Guys: there’s a reason why PrimalScript is the world’s best-selling script editor. |
| Windows PowerShell: TFM
"With Windows PowerShell TFM, Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks walk you through PowerShell's infrastructure, its security features, and its entire scripting language. With plenty of step-by-step, line-by-line examples, you'll be able to start using PowerShell for administrative tasks after just one or two chapters, and by the time you finish the book you'll be producing effective PowerShell scripts - with absolutely no prior experience, in this first comprehensive book on PowerShell."
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. |
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