Iron Scripter

The Chairman is very taken with the idea of automation and deployment pipelines. He is intrigued by all of the options available to IT Pros and his Iron Scripters. To that end, he is proposing this warm-up challenge to continue preparing you for the Iron Scripter event at the upcoming PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. …

Last week the Chairman provided another prelude challenge. This challenge was intended to get you familiar with Just Enough Administration (JEA). This is an admittedly advanced topic, but the Chairman expects nothing less from his Iron Scripters. To assist you in your quest the Chairman has graciously provided another sample solution. JEA is not a …

In 2019 the security of your network and data center should be a primary responsibility. As beneficial as it is to use PowerShell to manage things, the default implementation, especially from a remote administration perspective, may be overly broad. To remotely manage a server with PowerShell requires more administrative access than you may feel comfortable …

The last Chairmans’s challenge was based on a task you might have to face in real life – fixing someone else’s code. Although, that someone may be you! Of course it helps to know what should happen, which the Chairman so nicely provided. When run, the function should have produced output like this: A Solution …

To continue preparing you for the upcoming battle, the Chairman has arranged another prelude challenge. If the Chairman is feeling generous, a sample solution may be provided in about a week’s time. Premise You have been given a function from a previous co-worker that you need to maintain. The code does not work as expected …

So you had a little bit of time to work out a solution the first prelude challenge. Even though you might be tempted to answer all solutions as a script, sometimes you just need a command or two that will run successfully at a console prompt. Once you have the essential PowerShell commands working, then …

The Chairman has arranged for another prequel challenge to prepare you for the upcoming Iron Scripter battle. A suggested solution will eventually be provided. In the mean time, see what you can do with this problem. Using a set of Windows features, like Windows Internal Database, on a baseline server, configure a target server to …

To prepare you for the upcoming battle you were offered a warm-up challenge. The basic challenge was to take the output from Get-Counter and pipe it through a command you created to output more user-friendly output. As a bonus you were also challenged  to display the default results as a table. As with almost everything …

Over the course of the next several weeks there will be even more preparatory challenges. There is not necessarily any right answer as long as it meets the criteria of your chosen faction and produces the desired result. As you prepare yourself, you are encouraged to share and discuss your work with others in the …

Prepare yourself for Iron Scripter 2019 with this first warm up challenge.