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In this guide, Don Jones collected some of the best tips that have been published in the blog at ConcentratedTech.com over a period of six months. You could simply read this straight through – especially if you’re having trouble sleeping at night! But Don recommends that you tackle one tip a week. Work with it, try and use it in real life, and see what you can make of it. In time, by learning in chunks like this, you’ll be using PowerShell more effectively than ever.

icomasoft announces the release of its VI PowerScripter Professional v1.5. The latest release of icomasoft’s VI automation software is best positioned to rapidly address automation, management and compliance requirements across Virtual Infrastructures. IT administrators will experience a better control of their virtual infrastructure, increased IT compliance and substantial time-savings in routine management tasks.

Visitors of VMworld Europe 2009 have realized the benefits of icomasoft’s powerful automation software and ranked the respective session “Managing VMware with PowerShell” among the best Top 3 Sessions of the most important virtualization event in Europe. VI PowerScripter Professional v1.5 is designed to manage virtual infrastructures on different platforms and provides a high degree of automation. It can easily adapt and execute complex tasks automatically, even providing a scheduler for recurring jobs.

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The Virtualization EcoShell provides administrators with a free toolkit which allows them to build their own powerful virtualization systems management consoles. In addition, they can also benefit from the hundreds of members associated with the online community-driven website, The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI™) – www.thevesi.org. Scott Herold, author, virtualization expert and chief architect of the Virtualization EcoShell and VESI commented “While we are promoting the implementation of automated systems management and providing for free what many vendors still charge for, we know every single administrator managing a virtual infrastructure can take this freeware desktop application and wrap many value-added services around it for the benefit of their organizations.”

The beta release of the Virtualization EcoShell can be downloaded from here. The Virtualization EcoShell provides several key features and out-of-the-box use cases for administrators. These capabilities will allow them to get a strong sense of how to optimize, streamline, manage and automate their multi-platform virtual environments.

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John D. Cook over at the The Endeavour has written a small booklet, 10 pages, of things he wish someone had told him when he first started using Windows PowerShell.

The booklet PowerShell Day 1 lists some things that I wish someone had told me the first day I started using PowerShell. It is not a tutorial on PowerShell per se. There are many excellent tutorials out there, and these can be found via the links in the booklet. Instead, what this book covers is some of the environmental issues surrounding PowerShell that are harder to discover.

During the last episode of the PowerScripting Podcast, Scott Herold was interviewed by both co-hosts Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg. There was another prominent person asking questions on chat. Carter Chanklin, Product Manager at VMware's End User Enablement was just as curious as I about tomorrows launch of the Virtualization EcoShell. Scott also revealed, Vizioncore’s vRanger 4.0 will offer its own cmd-lets.

Scott Herold, the driving force behind the TheVESI, just announced the public availability of a new freeware product called The Virtualization EcoShell.

I'm not talking "Free for 30 days and then we're going to rip 80% of the features away".  I'm not talking "Free....for only a few ESX Servers".  I'm talking 100% completely free of charge regardless of the size of your environment.  How's that for an April 15th surprise?

The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI™) is a community-based initiative to help extend virtualization management using Microsoft Windows PowerShell. Whether you are a novice looking for assistance in enhancing your virtualization administration practices or an expert looking to share your knowledge with others, theVESI.org is the place for you.