Chapter 1. Solving administrative challenges
- The administrator’s headache
- Solving the challenge with automation
- PowerShell and WMI—the automation tools
Ask any Windows administrator about their biggest problems, and somewhere in the list, usually near the top, will be too much work and not enough time to do it. They know that automation is possible, will be at least aware of some of the technologies that could solve their problems, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and PowerShell, but don’t have the time to spend investigating the technologies. That’s a shame because it’s commonly accepted that 70 percent of an organization’s IT budget is used to “keep the lights on.” Automation can make a worthwhile ...
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