Summary: In Beginner Event 8, you are required to determine if a computer is a desktop computer or a laptop computer.
About this event
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Division |
Beginner |
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Date of Event |
4/11/2012 12:01 AM |
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Due Date |
4/18/2012 12:01 AM |
Event scenario
You are the desktop manager at a midsized enterprise company. It is inventory time, and you need to get a count of the number of laptop computers and the number of desktop computers. You decide to write a Windows PowerShell script that will count the number of desktop computers and the number of laptop computers on the network. To permit auditing, your report should include the computer name, and whether or not it is a desktop or a laptop machine.
Design points
- For the purposes of this scenario, your script only needs to write to the console.
- Your script only needs to determine laptop or desktop from a hardware perspective. You do not need to determine the version of the operating system.
- Your code only needs to run on a local computer.
- If your code requires admin rights, you should detect if the code is running as an admin or as a standard user. If your code works without requiring admin rights, you do not need to make this check.
- Extra points for writing a simple function that only returns a Boolean value.
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