The 2011 Scripting Games begin on April 4, 2011 and run through April 15, 2011. What is the Scripting Games, you may ask? Well simply put, the Scripting Games are the premier learning event of the year for IT Pro’s and others who wish to master Windows PowerShell. Comprising 10 events, a registered contestant has seven days to create a solution to a scenario driven problem and post their code to a MVP maintained script repository for evaluation by a panel of internationally recognized judges. Daily leaderboards and prize drawings help to maintain the suspense throughout the two-week international event.

During the 2011 Scripting Games hundreds of contestants will submit thousands of scripts that will be reviewed by dozens of judges. Hundreds of thousands of spectators from all around the world will view the games themselves. Last year, participants from more than 100 countries participated in the Scripting Games. With an emphasis on real world scripting scenarios and problems, the scripts will be of immediate value to both the participants and to the spectators.

Preparation for the 2011 Scripting Games is already underway, with a learning guide, step-by-step tutorials, videos and other resources being generated on a daily basis. The 2011 Scripting Games all in one page is the portal for the games themselves. The 2010 Scripting Games all in one page is still available, as are the events from the 2009 Scripting Games.

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Recently I wrote a couple of posts for ScriptingGuys, describing how to use SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell. Many of the examples from the post are from my and Mattias Karlsson’s book: PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Administrators, which will be released October 29, this year.

You can check out the SharePoint & PowerShell Week posts here:

Get Started Managing SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell Cmdlets

Use SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cmdlets to Get and Manage Sites

Use PowerShell to Manage Lists, Views, and Items in SharePoint

Use PowerShell Cmdlets to Manage SharePoint Document Libraries

Got back from a vacation in Australia today and found out that I had an e-mail from Microsoft in my inbox containing the following:

Dear Niklas Goude,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in PowerShell technical communities during the past year.

It feels amazing receiving this award and Im really happy to be a part of the PowerShell MVP’s.

Thank You!

Merlin is a member of the Scandinavian PowerShell User Group and he will gladly help you with your membership.

The script requires that MS Agent is installed. MS Agent is installed by default in XP and Vista but if you are running Windows 7 beta you have to install it

MS Agent

Just run the script and Merlin will help you to become a member of the Scandinavian PowerShell User Group!

Download the Script Here

Running the Script:

PS > .\PowerShellug.ps1

Tip: you can fnd the correct answer to Merlins question here.

The Scandinavian PowerShell User Group is a joint venture of Microsoft PowerShell users in all of the Scandinavian countrys, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. It’s a great meeting place where we can discuss various issues, thoughts and solutions.

There’s a repository containing PowerPoint slides from Richard Siddaways presentation that you want to check out. Richard is a PowerShell MVP from UK.

So if you are Scandinavian and want to benfit from the PowerShellug usergroup, you should join today. I think It’s a real fun experience and a great place to share information and knowledge.

www.PowerShellug.com