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Link: VMware: VI Toolkit (for Windows): Announcing the winners of the VI Toolkit Scripting Contest!.

Thanks to everyone for you hard work and contributions to our VI Toolkit Scripting contest.

Now the time has come to announce our winners!

First Prize: Our first prize, a trip to VMworld, goes to LucD for his script, which is a really cool Guest Provisioning System.

 

I really like Luc's application because it very easily lets you clone lots of VMs, while giving you control over a lot of the parameters that are frustratingly manual when you try to do them with other VMware tools. Not only that, but you can queue up tens or even hundreds of clone jobs and run them all with the press of a button. This is especially useful since cloning VMs can take a really long time.

Not only that, but as you can see above, this is not just some script meant to be run on a grainy old CRT terminal, it's a full fledged UI. Speaking of its really cool UI, Bruce Payette, one of the key designers of PowerShell and author of the book PowerShell in Action, had this to say about it: "This is exactly the kind of application we were thinking about when we made PowerShell able to work with WinForms."

Those of us who follow the VI Toolkit for Windows community know Luc quite well, as he has contributed countless great scripts and has really made a difference to a lot of people. So again, congratulations to Luc and we hope to see you in Vegas!