Scripting Seems Superior for Admin Stuff
I had always been of the mindset that when I need a custom program that does some weird task, that I would need to fire up Visual Studio and put together a little C# program. I have learned over the past few months that this is not the case, and that using powershell or even batch works WYA better and much must faster. It also allows for way easier itteration, as I can “develop” right on the server that is affected. I’ve been slowly replacing the old C# programs I have written with powershell scripts and it is much much easier. Plus, it has the added bonus of being human-readable, meaning anyone who comes along after me should be able to discern what is going on with the script just by reading it. I don’t have to provide anyone any source code, and then don’t have ot install Visual Studio. Easy peesy!