That's a good point - almost everywhere I go as a consultant...their IT people use the GUI to manage things and not PowerShell. Most places that I've seen auto

That's a good point - almost everywhere I go as a consultant...their IT people use the GUI to manage things and not PowerShell. Most places that I've seen automate things with a .NET program whether it's a service, a console app run via Task Scheduler, an SSIS package and in a few cases - a desktop app. EDIT: I'm a programmer and not a sysadmin except for on my own network where I do prefer "the easy way" as opposed to the way where you have to do rote memorization to perform simple tasks. If I automate anything, it's also done with .NET or Node.js because I like the tools better and my stuff runs everywhere without performing any ceremonies. I do visit a lot of client sites though and I work with client sysadmins regularly. I'm on the East coast and I work in the NY/NJ/PA area. Also the reason I like bash better is because if I have to memorize anything (and I do, for Linux work)...I'd rather have it be something terse.