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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to VMware vExpert, consultant and author Edward Haletky about his experiences with PowerShell and securing your virtual infrastructure.

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• The PowerShell team has

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• Microsoft’s

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    Edward L. Haletky is the author of [

VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment

](http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/VMware_Virtual_Infrastructure_Security) as well as [

VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers

](http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/VMWare_ESX_Server_in_the_Enterprise). Edward owns [

AstroArch Consulting, Inc.

](http://www.astroarch.com/), providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development. Edward is also a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions, prolific blogger, and is working on new books on Virtualization.

    - 
      [http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization](http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization)


    - 
      [http://www.astroarch.com/blog/](http://www.astroarch.com/blog/)











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  Questions:







    - 
      jtroyer: ## Linux user perspective on PowerShell? (Me: old unix guy who likes it.)


    - 
      jtroyer: ## for normal Perl-using humans, how hard was the transition?













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  - 
    Chad Miller did in fact

blog about the charting script

which was mentioned in the last show

  - 
    The Scripting Guys tell us how to

get data out of a function

  - 
    Carter mentions stuff to check out in a

recent blog entry

  - 
    Dr. Tobias Weltner has

released a free eBook

“Mastering PowerShell”

  - 
    Hal & Joel collaborate to bring you:

Get-StringRange (from

this tweet)

Tips

  - 
    [Running a PowerCLI scheduled task](http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/07/10/running-a-powercli-scheduled-task/)

by Virtu-Al

  - 
    Kirk Munro posted a great article outlining [operator and enclosure precedence](http://poshoholic.com/2009/07/08/essential-powershell-know-your-operator-and-enclosure-precedence/)