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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
If you do full time operations, learning PowerShell is a must. You can save yourself so much time and effort if you can effectively automate your tasks, from user provisioning/deprovisioning, maintenance, and other repetitive or otherwise time-consuming tasks. There are sometimes means of doing tasks like that with .cmd or .vbs, but on the whole, PS is a far more scalable approach.
A student I taught once told me PowerShell allows him to be a complete slacker at work, because he's scripted most of his daily tasks. Yet he gets credit for it.
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I only manage an office of 10 people, so I'd probably spend more time building scripts and learning that I'd ever save. Though I do love scripting stuff to save time! Excel macros FTW.
I've saved hundreds of man-hours at my office with a few days spent making these things. Co-workers are always in awe watching them churn through data. I'm in awe that my crappy hacked code actually works.
Any programmer would probably have a conniption looking at it. But it gets the job done.