{"id":17864,"date":"2008-10-30T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/?p=17864"},"modified":"2019-06-07T12:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T20:33:51","slug":"vi-powerscripter-from-icomasoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/vi-powerscripter-from-icomasoft\/","title":{"rendered":"VI PowerScripter From icomasoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.icomasoft.com\/\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.icomasoft.com\/\">icomasoft <\/A>has just released <A href=\"http:\/\/www.icomasoft.com\/products\/vi-powerscripter.html\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.icomasoft.com\/products\/vi-powerscripter.html\">VI PowerScripter<\/A>.&nbsp; PowerScripter is a PowerShell based&nbsp;extension module to VMWare&#8217;s VI Client.&nbsp; I have not seen it but looking at the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.icomasoft.com\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/ftpdrive\/PowerScripter_webhelp\/index.htm\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.icomasoft.com\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/ftpdrive\/PowerScripter_webhelp\/index.htm\">online manual<\/A> has got to make any admin start drooling.&nbsp; The thing I like about this so much is that it leverages both PowerGadgets and PowerGUI.&nbsp; This allows them to deliver a great experience to their customers without having to code it all themselves.&nbsp; As those products get better, their product gets better.&nbsp; Happy happy all around.<\/P>\n<P>I haven&#8217;t used it (since I don&#8217;t have a big VMWare environment [surprise \ud83d\ude42 ]) so I&#8217;d love to hear from anyone that has used it.&nbsp; <\/P>\n<P>Correct me if I&#8217;ve got this wrong but it seems like PowerShell&nbsp;has enabled a arm&#8217;s race between VMWare and&nbsp;System Center Virtual Machine Manager (the other week there&nbsp;was a post that showed how to do Quick Migrate a VMware virtual machine from one ESX server to the other&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/mikedatl.typepad.com\/mikedvirtualization\/2008\/10\/quick-migration.html#more\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/mikedatl.typepad.com\/mikedvirtualization\/2008\/10\/quick-migration.html#more\">Quick Migration for VMware &#8211; The Power of PowerShell<\/A>).&nbsp; Each of them is able to deliver additional great functions to their community without having to wait a year for the next product release cycle.&nbsp; I think this is absolutely great for customers and highlights one of the key advantages of PowerShell &#8211; <STRONG>once you&#8217;ve instrumented your product with PowerShell, it enables you to be very agile in the marketplace<\/STRONG>.&nbsp; That is a clear and present business advantage.<\/P>\n<P>Cheers!<\/P>\n<P>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]<BR>Windows Management Partner Architect<BR>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/A><BR>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/A><BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>icomasoft has just released VI PowerScripter.&nbsp; PowerScripter is a PowerShell based&nbsp;extension module to VMWare&#8217;s VI Client.&nbsp; I have not seen it but looking at the online manual has got to make any admin start drooling.&nbsp; The thing I like about this so much is that it leverages both PowerGadgets and PowerGUI.&nbsp; This allows them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-17864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-powerscripter"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>icomasoft has just released VI PowerScripter.&nbsp; PowerScripter is a PowerShell based&nbsp;extension module to VMWare&#8217;s VI Client.&nbsp; I have not seen it but looking at the online manual has got to make any admin start drooling.&nbsp; The thing I like about this so much is that it leverages both PowerGadgets and PowerGUI.&nbsp; 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