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    - 
      VMware's VI Toolkit is now called

PowerCLI, and they have a

Twitter account.

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      [What's new](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/05/new-stuff-in-the-vi-toolkit-extensions-part-1-routing.html) in the VI Toolkit Extensions?


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      Pscx 1.2 Beta

has been released

    - 
      Listener Matt Johnson is trying to start up a

PowerShell Script Club in SE Michigan

    - 
      Go and register for the upcoming

Exchange 2010 webcast frrom TechNet (thanks Shay)

    - 
      2009 Summer Scripting Games

are coming, and they are gonna be great (thanks in part to

PoshCode!)

    - 
      The first

Unofficial Online VMUG is June 1st

Interview

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This segment is brought to you by *SAPIEN Technologies

  Doug Hazelman from

Veeam joins us tonight

  [Doug's blog](http://doughazelman.com/blog/) and

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  Questions from the chat room (from people who rock)







    9:13 neririn: ## how does this compare to vCenter Data Recovery?







      9:16 BrianSt: ## How does Configurator compare to the new Host Profiles?









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            The guys at Channel 9 have put up a

half-dozen short videos on PowerShell v2 features

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            Icomasoft has put up a

quick reference card that’s great for both PowerShell and the VI Toolkit–er, PowerCLI

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            Hal had a chance to

interview Kirk Munro in person at TechEd and they talked a lot about PowerGUI

          - 
            Dmitry shows us how to do a

remote defrag with WMI and PowerGUI

Tips

              - 
                Shay has written a

great article on how to run PowerShell versions 1 and 2 side by side using the new XP Mode feature in Windows 7

              - 
                Blogger Steven Hystad has written a cool

cryptography and compression script along with a nice writeup on some of the background for writing it

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                An example of

using -header with import-csv for looking at Live Mesh logs