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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Scott Herold about Vizioncore and VESI. We're also joined in studio by

  Scott Moss, VP of the   Southeast Management User Group, a local friend, and fan of the show.

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    Andy Schneider, James Brundage and others will be heading up the

  Script Club in Seattle   on Apr 21st

  - 
    Now announcing:

  WMI team blog

  - 
    Going to TechEd next month? Hal has a birds of a feather session on day 3 titled "[Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field](http://halr9000.com/article/717)"

Interview





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Links mentioned in the interview 







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    [http://www.vizioncore.com](http://www.vizioncore.com/index.php)


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    [http://thevesi.org](http://thevesi.org/index.jspa)









Questions







  - 
    rfoust : ## tell me about vOptimizer Pro.  Does it resize C: partitions if a D: is right behind it?


  - 
    rfoust : ## what do you think about hyper-v - will it ever compete w/ vmware?


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    rfoust : ## will vOptimizer realign without taking downtime, or i guess it has to reboot, right?


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    ScottMoss : ## does vfoglight integrate with Microsoft Operations Manager?


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    rfoust : ## know of any good docs for deploying Exchange in vmware? Vmotioning a CCR cluster really isn't supported, huh? 🙂


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    spowser : ## Can the resize work the opposite way?  Go from small to large disk?


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    meson : ## How about XenServer?


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    rfoust : ## is vmware anywhere close to lpars?


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    spowser : ## Will Ecoshell be able to extendshrink disks or is that IP of Vizioncore?


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    cartershanklin : ## Do you think VESI will focus on an area, reporting for example?


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    cartershanklin : ## Are you embracing/extending the notion of PowerGUI lockdown?


  - 
    cartershanklin : Maybe Scott can talk a bit about lockdown and why it matters.


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    cartershanklin : ## Will VESI support VMware Update Manager?

Resources





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        - 
          Script from the PowerShell team:

  Set Vista network location to private

        - 
          The Scripting Guys bring us

  Learning to Excel

        - 
          Jeff Hicks has a cool

  script to create a GUI tree view

        - 
          [Add the ability](http://poshcode.org/1006)

  to use a text balloon to your scripts

        - 
          Don Jones has

  released his debugging series in a PDF

        - 
          Richard Siddaway talks about

  modules in 2008 R2

        - 
          [Richcopy](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx)

        Tips







          - 
            Keith Hill posts:

  Effective PowerShell #15: Using the Output Field Separator $OFS