For all you admins and other technical people out there who have watched the Windows OS spool the data from network storage to your workstation and then back to network storage, watch for Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX). I saw ODX at TechEd a few weeks ago and the data movement is primarily kept at the backend storage network. EMC and other storage vendors are already posting about when they will have this functionality.
Here's some information about it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848056(v=vs.85).aspx
A couple of free Powershell tools I use a lot are ActiveRoles Management Shell for AD and PowerGUI Script Editor. The management shell I like because it reduced the number of lines I used in my code, and the editor adds some nice to haves like color coding, syntax, etc.
Here are the links:
http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspxv
http://powergui.org