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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast Carter Shanklin from VMWare joins us to talk about the new version of the VI toolkit for PowerShell.
News
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- VMware announces version 1.5 of their VI PowerShell toolkit is now out! Download – Release notes – intro videos – demo scripts
- Don Jones is working on a new OSS project called Cahoots. Please help him test!
- According to Marco Shaw the 2009 Scripting Games will be held this summer
- The PowerShell team is looking for some feedback
- There’s some great news from the DB4o team with regards to PowerShell support.
- The Micrsofot Clustering & HA team recently announced their upcoming support for PowerShell in 2008 Server R2.  Over 30 new cmdlets!
Interview
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New stuff:
- buncha new cmdlets
- invoke-vmscript, remoting into VMs
Questions:
meson : ## So what about a XenServer PowerShell book? 😉
rfoust : ## what is the best way to get started with the vi toolkit – is there a “getting started” guide?
jeffculb-1 : ## Why aren’t the release notes for the vitoolkit accessible from the download page
Resources
- eJournal: Windows Administration in Realtime, look for the Practical PowerShell columns
- In case you missed it Jeffrey Snover was on the Mind of Root podcast discussing WSMAN
- PoshCode #829 New-Task, “Allows for the creation of tasks in Microsoft Outlook from Windows PowerShell. The majority of task options available can be configured with the function.”
- Cool PowerGUI video tutorials latest video is on how to use debugging.
Tips
One-Liner
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow “Modules loaded: $(get-module)”
Giveaway
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We’re giving away two copies of Hal’s upcoming book: Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM.  If you’d like to win a copy, leave us a review on iTunes, or Podcast Alley, or your own blog, or mention us on your Facebook page or whatever. Send a link to [email protected] and let us know what and where to verify and you are entered to win!  Be sure to include your mailing address and name.