Hi LucD,
That's a good and valid point. I actually didn't know you could use Visual Studio to do your Scripting with the various VMware Modules including PowerCLI. I'll definitely have to look into this. This is something I can definitely do on my home system when scripting. I don't know how to make visual studio upgrade to the latest version of PS and load the modules, but if it's the same as just using the regular ol powershell commands, then that's pretty easy. If you have a good source/article for making the migration of your work from the PS interface to Visual Studio and beyond, I'd love to read it. Are there any books out that cover this at all? To add to the endless # of IT books I intend to read? I'm actually eager to try it now.
With that being said...
However, I am restricted to loading Visual Studio on a system at work. They are extremely strict on what and where you load things, licensing, etc. Just installing something without going through a lot of red tape is considerably difficult. We have a server that we RDP to which everyone uses to run and save scripts from. Therefore, I would like to use the latest version 7 with the ISE at work, instead of continuing to use the 5.1.x version. If I make changes, I usually make the scope to the current user - me. So in a nutshell, that's my answer. Even if the software is free, it has to go through a review board, testing, and other stuff before it gets put on the list of applications you're allowed to install. Also there is a subclass of software you're allowed to install on a server vs a desktop. Just to explain how much of a pain this is, they don't allow Senior Systems Engineers that administrator servers that cost a ton of money, Administrator rights on our Desktops. What pain that causes and being able to work effectively is hard to put in words nicely. But hey, in the meantime, I may start the long process to get permission to do it.
I'm glad that you educated me on why MSFT dropped it though, I was wondering why, and now I know, so thank you. With the ISE gone now, it sure makes a lot of PowerCLI books dated. Maybe there will be erratum for them explaining that the ISE was dropped and better ways to move forward.
However, I would still like to learn how to run the ISE with PSv6 and 7. Apparently the person that wrote that blog post did as well. I think others might want to know too. But it's good that we have identified the better way to do it for others that may look to use the ISE as well.
Are most people using v6 and v7, or are there still many people using 5.1.x for writing their scripts? I'm not sure how you'd tell what the majority of what people are doing, but that would be really interesting to know. I wish I could dedicate more time just to PowerShell and the VMware Modules, but we have hundreds of ESXi hosts in enhanced linked mode in various Data Centers, so there is so much busy work and projects to always being working on. And without going on a tangent, I just kind of learn a lot of things as I go, and have very little time to specialize in one area.
So that's basically it. I would like to learn the work around the blog post offered in the mean time. Thank you so much, I do appreciate it.