i’ve been putting off getting properly acquainted with powershell for about 2 years now. benny has recently re-piqued my interest for PS.

for AD i’ve been automating tasks with VBscript & ds* commands and the need hasn’t arrived yet that i needed to do something only in PS. i’ve done minor tasks in exchange 2007 with it however.

anyways, some basic powershell information for future reference:
powershell 2.0 is out now
vmware’s PS extensions are called “vsphere powercli”
there’s a community created powergui IDE for PS…but PS 2.0 ships with its own environment called “windows powershell ISE”