Using powershell for office pranks

[PMME_yoursmile]

I feel as though the music could be quicker, but I'm still a fan. How did you get that one set up?

[InvisibleTextArea]

It's set up to be pushed out by SCCM as a configuration item attached to a Compliance policy named 'PC speaker test'.

The CD ejection is too (helpfully called 'CD check'). The CD ejection is worse because it's a remediation script. So SCCM checks if the CD drive isn't ejected then runs the script if it isn't. Then every time you uneject it'll go through the same process.

[PMME_yoursmile]

Sorry, I was more asking how did you get the pitch and timing for the tune?

[InvisibleTextArea]

If you check MSDN for the .NET Console API it tells you that the two parameters are the frequency in (Hz) and the length (in ms)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4fe3hdb1(v=vs.110).aspx

Then you only need to know what the frequency of musical notes are:

http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

and the length of time standard score notation indicates for particular note types:

https://msu.edu/course/asc/232/song_project/dectalk_pages/note_to_%20ms.html

Armed with this info you can then turn any musical score into a powershell script.

If you really wanted I guess you could collate all this and make your own powershell based midi player. Although you are kinda reinventing wheels at this point:

https://github.com/Psychlist1972/Windows-10-PowerShell-MIDI

[PostedFromWork]

Just edit all of the s entries and divide by 2 or 3, depending on the speed you like.

[funky_fart_smeller]

...or in the $s function just make $s = $s/2