Yes Powershell is all over the place. Even VMware, that will probably not make it to the Microsoft Thanksgiving dinner this year, has gotten on the Powershell train (do they have any choice) and have delivered a beta of their Powershell tool kit for Vi 3.5
Depending on the way you deploy your virtual desktops in VDI environments, you still need to have some kind of updating / patch strategy. Whether it be patching "the golden image" or "subscribed desktops" there's still and Windows OS to maintain. Virtual machines that are offline or suspended usually pose a challenge.
My soon to be colleague Patrick Rouse has written an article on how to configure Desktop Services in the Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite (VAS) Enterprise Edition. Desktop Services is the name for the VDI component of the Virtual Access Suite Enterprise Edition.
The Inquirer has an interesting article up that mentions that it appears (important choice of verb) that Dell will sell their servers with Vmware Server ESX 3i without any additional cost. I feel that this rumor might have been slightly misinterpreted by the community but this could have a huge effect.
Yesterday I received an email from a Microsoft press person. I've never had Microsoft contact me directly to inform me of an acquisition they had made but it was worth it: Microsoft has announced that they will acquire Kidaro, one of the pioneers of offline virtual desktop solutions.