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The PowerWF family of products are easy enough for desktop and departmental automation, yet powerful and scalable enough for the Data Center. PowerWF compliments Opalis and other RBA solutions, lets you leverage your workforce and preserves your investment as your automation needs grow.
Intel has produced a new video that discusses their new Intel® vPro™ Technology Module for Microsoft Windows Powershell
- 3 months agoPetri has an interview with Microsoft PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks talking about the importance of PowerShell. In the video interview Jeffery mentions PowerWF as a way to work with PowerShell using a GUI interface instead of a command line or traditional script.
- Thanks Jeffery.
Eric Sloof has been posting a ton of great VMware/vShere videos the last several days. In case you missed them, here is a quick run down with links:
Check out our video for the Microsoft System Center Alliance -
Spend some time to learn about System Center Management Packs and what they can do for your company. In this video you will see a brief customer scenario, a product demo and learn about the ITcross-platform management and customized management pack creation capabilities DevFarm has developed for your System Center environment. DevFarm is a trusted System Center Alliance partner and develops management packs specifically for System Center.
Ben walks through the new Insert PowerShell Dialog and Contextual Help Pane in a first look at the newly released PowerWF Studio 2.0.
- 2 years agoA quick look at the easiest way to create PowerShell modules. PowerWF (http://www.powerwf.com) is used to create a PowerShell module that allows you to use the Speech API (SAPI) and create message boxes from within PowerShell.
- 2 years agoIn this demo we deploy a PowerCLI script that we’d transcribed to a workflow using PowerWF earlier to an Agent to run automatically every 3 seconds. As a result of that script running as a workflow in the agent we see ESX Memory Usage in the local computer’s Performance Monitor.
- 2 years agoIn this demo we create a couple of workflows to Power On and Power Off a Virtual Machine then deploy them to PowerGUI. From within PowerGUI we can run those workflows in context by clicking on ‘Run Workflow’ and choosing the the workflow. The selected virtual machines are automatically bound as input parameters to the selected workflow.
- 2 years agoThis is a follow-up on yesterday’s video ‘PowerCLI + PowerWF = Awesome’ where we go through the process step-by-step of creating a workflows from a PowerShell script.
- 2 years agoCarter: Can you PowerCLI?
PowerWF: Most definitely.
In this demo we run a couple of workflows inside of PowerWF Studio (http://powerwf.com) that were translated from PowerCLI one-liners found on the net (thank you http://www.peetersonline.nl/i and http://halr9000.com).
Note: the VIToolkit and PowerShell activity libraries will both be available in the next beta, PowerWF for VMWare Enterprise.
PowerWF Studio is a suite of tools leveraging PowerShell and Windows Workflow for automation and administration of physical and virtual environments. Leveraging VMware’s PowerCLI, VIX API plus several other PowerWF activities packs, PowerWF Studio for VMware offers levels of automation typically only seen in enterprise class solutions. The product supports management of VMware Server, Workstation, Player, and Virtual Infrastructure (both ESX and vCenter).
