This video shows how PowerGUI can be used to easily manage different applications from a single console, in this case we deal with an Exchange server gone bad. PowerGUI is also great if you're new to scripting because it generates PowerShell code for you on the fly, much like Excel's "Record Macro" functionality.

 

 

 

 

 

Invoke-VMScript is an upcoming feature of the VI Toolkit (for Windows) that lets you run commands within VMs.