Last year’s sessions by Alan and myself definitely was one of the highlights of my year. And judging by the comments and scores we received, it didn’t go down that badly with the attendees either. So this year we want to “raise the bar”. We have some fantastic sessions planned and hope you will come and see some of the things we have organised.
If I had to use one word to describe our sessions this year it would be “Super”. After you have seen the sessions you will understand why.
So to give you an idea of what we have planned we decided to give you a quick outline of our sessions and also a mention some of the other PowerShell and PowerCLI based sessions at VMworld….
And don’t forget to register in time !
Judging from the number of hits, the VIProperties page seems to be rather popular.
The number of entries on that page increases nearly on a daily basis.And judging by the list of people who submitted New-VIProperty entries, this particular feature of PowerCLI is in use all over the place.
Recently my co-author of the PowerCLI book, Jonathan Medd, had a brilliant idea.
Why not bundle all the VIProperties in a module ? The user would just have to do an Import-Module, instead of a copy/paste on each of the entries.
So for the 100th post on my blog I decided to bring you the VIProperty module.
Update August 25th 2011: added the use of the PowerCLI 5 Get-VIProperty cmdlet.
Read more…
This afternoon news of a new (and interesting) blog post from Julian Wood hit the Twitter-verse.
He took part from the logic of my Raiders of the Lost VMX script and used the relatively new VMFilePath parameter of the New-VM cmdlet, to shorten my script considerable. Well done, great job !
But I was intrigued by a remark in Julian’s post. He was obviously not too fond of using MoRefs in a script. But in Julian’s final script I still saw a Get-View cmdlet and the use of the HostDatastoreBrowser. Remembering a remark from one of my co-authors on the PowerCLI book, that the Get-View cmdlet would disappear, once the PowerCLI snapin would be sufficiently evolved, I decided to tackle Julian’s script and give it another simplification treatment and make it more PowerCLI 
