Mike Laverick released another RTFM white paper. This one helps you to get up and running with VMware’s new PowerShell Toolkit – without having to learn any Powershell code!
I was initially put of using the various SDKs, Perl Toolkits and PowerShell Tookits – although I’m pretty good with the CLI of an ESX host and write useful “shell? (.sh) scripts – I wouldn’t say I was a VBS guru or C# guru. Then I discovered PowerGUI. PowerGUI puts a graphical shell around Microsoft PowerShell. It’s a bit like the old style “macro? recorders you used to get in spreadsheet or a word processor. You click about making changes – and this creates the code you need. Sure if you want to really fancy things like loops and error control you then need higher level knowledge – but this really great for poor little admins like me who’s eyes glaze over once some talks about object, properties, attributes and methods.
