One of the projects I’ve been working on recently was to automate our production SQL Server installs including our standard configuration changes. Much of this process was already done by my predecessor Nic Cain (blog|@SirSQL) who had written an interactive PowerShell process for doing the SQL Server installs and making some of the configuration settings. I just needed to add some enhancements and new features to that. One thing I added to the script was to automate setting the power