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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Carter Shanklin with VMware about his new product release

News **

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      Version 1.3 of the Quest ARS cmdlets [has been released](http://www.bobbobel.com/new-activeroles-ad-cmdlets-v1-3/)


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      [A related post from Dmitry](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/new-cmdlets-to-manage-ad-computer-accounts/)


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      Blog highlight: [Luc Dekens](http://lucd.info/)


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      Sapien [is giving away](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2009/12/01/free-windows-powershell-ebook/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SapienBlog+(SAPIEN+Technologies+Blog)) an ebook version of Power TFM V1

    Interview





    *This segment is brought to you by *[*SAPIEN Technologies*](http://sapien.com/)*.*

    Links







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        [http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/11/powercli-40-u1-is-out.html](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/11/powercli-40-u1-is-out.html)


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        [](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/11/powercli-40-u1-is-out.html)[http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/11/project-onyx-is-here.html](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/11/project-onyx-is-here.html)


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        [http://www.youtube.com/user/cartershanklin](http://www.youtube.com/user/cartershanklin)

    Questions





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      jtruman0917: ## Can you import any VHD ?


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      siebert7625: When is Onyx suppose to GA?


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      jtruman0917: ## Will conveter ever allow for creating a vdsk file from a runnng physical machine?


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      esiebert7625: seems liek there are cmdlets for just about everything, what isn't there cmdlets for?


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      jasonboche: ## We could use commandlets for Lab Manager. We have 5 deployments and growing, some large. Lack of some automation in Lab Manager hurts.


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      esiebert7625: are there any cmdlets for vshield zones or VDR?


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      esiebert7625: how much code tweaking is needed with Onyx? will the code generated be ready to use or will it need massaging first?

Resources

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      [Disable copy/paste in a VM (powerCLI)](http://poshcode.org/1475)


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      PDC 2009 [PowerShell videos](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/11/23/pdc-2009-powershell-videos.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ShayLevy+(Shay+Levy++-+$cript+Fanatic)) are online


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      And [slides from TechEd](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/11/12/srv312-teched-slides.aspx)


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      A [PowerShell module](http://www.leporelo.eu/blog.aspx?id=powershell-module-for-html-visualization) for HTML visualization 


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      [Test-PSRemoting script from Lee Holmes](http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/TestingForPowerShellRemotingTestPsRemoting.aspx)


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      Andy Schneider [posted a video](http://get-powershell.com/2009/11/30/powershell-advanced-functions/) on advanced functions


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      [Rich Siddaway shows us how to automate Excel and set cell background colors](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2652.entry)


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      [Here's a blog post](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/news/archive/2009/11/17/powershellplus-3-1-available.aspx) about the new features in PowerShellPlus 3.1 Beta


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      [Neat script from Jeff Hicks to grab NTFS disk quotas](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2009/11/get-disk-quota/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed)

Tips

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          From StackOverflow: [How to determine PowerShell version](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1825585/determine-what-version-of-powershell-is-installed)


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          [Working with STDERR](http://halr9000.com/article/837)


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          [Security tip on v2 remoting from the PowerShell team](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/11/23/you-don-t-have-to-be-an-administrator-to-run-remote-powershell-commands.aspx)


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          [And another on WinRM](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/11/20/windows-powershell-and-the-windows-management-framework.aspx)