Exercises

1. On attempting to run a script we’ve written, another user on our machine gets an error message that says running scripts is disabled on this system. What do we have to do to allow them to run the script?
2. We have a young relative who loves Dungeons and Dragons, but they’ve lost their 20-sided die. We write a short PowerShell script for them, Get-Die.ps1, as follows:

   Get-Random -Minimum 1 -Maximum 20

   This will produce a random number between 1 and 20 every time it is run. Which value in this line of code is most likely to change if they lose another die with a different number of sides?

3. In the Get-Die.ps1 script from the previous question, how would we parameterize the changing value?
4. What type of parameter should it be, and how would we specify it?
5. They like the script, and now they’ve lost their four-sided die. They’ve discovered that they can put any number they like into the parameter. While this was quite cool at first, now...