I finally decided to start messing around with PowerShell a bit. I'm hearing great things about the (free!) IDE at
powershell.com so I'm gonna download that right away. I dabbled with one of the betas but haven't taken the time to check it out since. Now that it is RC1, I figure I should have another go at it.
I'm sure PowerShell will end up being a great tool but I wonder if MS plans to port it into MSOffice at any time in the future? The reason I am curious is because just today I was able to steal a couple of fairly long functions from some VBS scripts that I wrote and throw them right into MSAccess--without making a single change. If we all start using PowerShell for our admin scripts instead of VBS, that code portability will be lost. VB, VBS, and VBA are all a bit different from each other but you can usually take a code snippet from one and get it to work for one of the others. From the reading I've done on PowerShell in the past, this won't be the case. I don't think you will even be able to easily port code to C#. Maybe I'm just underinformed at this time or maybe that's just the price of progress.
And if you have any interest in PowerShell,
their blog site is a great place to start.