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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Carter Shanklin with VMware about his new product release
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- Version 1.3 of the Quest ARS cmdlets has been released
- A related post from Dmitry
- Blog highlight:Â Luc Dekens
- Sapien is giving away an ebook version of Power TFM V1
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Questions
- jtruman0917: ## Can you import any VHD ?
- siebert7625: When is Onyx suppose to GA?
- jtruman0917: ## Will conveter ever allow for creating a vdsk file from a runnng physical machine?
- esiebert7625: seems liek there are cmdlets for just about everything, what isn't there cmdlets for?
- jasonboche: ## We could use commandlets for Lab Manager. We have 5 deployments and growing, some large. Lack of some automation in Lab Manager hurts.
- esiebert7625: are there any cmdlets for vshield zones or VDR?
- esiebert7625: how much code tweaking is needed with Onyx? will the code generated be ready to use or will it need massaging first?
Resources
- Disable copy/paste in a VM (powerCLI)
- PDC 2009 PowerShell videos are online
- And slides from TechEd
- A PowerShell module for HTML visualizationÂ
- Test-PSRemoting script from Lee Holmes
- Andy Schneider posted a video on advanced functions
- Rich Siddaway shows us how to automate Excel and set cell background colors
- Here's a blog post about the new features in PowerShellPlus 3.1 Beta
- Neat script from Jeff Hicks to grab NTFS disk quotas
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