Archive for March 2008

VMWare VI Toolkit 1.0 Beta (for PowerShell)

20th March 2008, 09:24 am

March 14th 2008, VMWare launches the beta release of the VI Toolkit. I'm actually excited about this release as I manage a large ESX environment with over 100 VMs. The VI Toolkit provides 102 custom cmdlets written for ESX and VirtualCenter. So what can I do with these new cmdlets?

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PowerShell WMI Tutorial Part 3 (Report Writing) Launched

19th March 2008, 02:22 pm

Announcement March 19th 2008

The last installment of the PowerShell WMI tutorial has been launched and is now available. The PowerShell Tutorial can be found here. Enjoy the new PowerShell Training session.

Coming up next, Managing Active Directory through ADSI. 

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A Problem with the Microsoft Script Repository?

5th March 2008, 01:59 pm

PowerShell Warning

I enjoy the Microsoft PowerShell Script Repository and all the examples provided. I have used many of the examples within PowerShell Tutorials and Articles (including this one) written on this site. However, there is a problem with using the "Write-Host" cmdlet that has frustrated myself along with many others; I have the hate-mail to prove it!

So what is the issue that is being discussed here? You will want to read on…

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Category: PowerShell Scripting  |  6 Comments