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Whisper9999

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May 25, 2007 at 10:39 am

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I was debating learning Windows Powershell. I'm wondering if anyone is using it and liking it. Are there any pitfalls or difficulties? What are you suing it for?

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jezemine SSCrazy Eights Points: 8059 More actions · Answer 1

Powershell + SMO can be a pretty powerful combination:

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/bobb/2006/11/07/SMOAndPowershellBetterTogetherTheScripts.aspx

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Greg Milner SSCrazy Points: 2425 More actions · Answer 2

Definitely worth learning if you are stuck in a windows world. If you need cross-platform compatibility, go for Python, in my opinion.

Bruce Payette's Powershell in Action is still the best book out there on the subject.

Cheers.

G. Milner

Peter Schott SSCrazy Eights Points: 9675 More actions · Answer 3

I'll second the vote for Python. Easy to learn, extensible, and worked great on my boxes in a previous job. That being said, I need to take a second look at PowerShell. Supposedly, MS is trying to make most of their main apps expose their methods to the point that you could drive everything in PowerShell. That's definitely a plus for it.

-Pete

CodeDigger Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 506 More actions · Answer 4

Powershell is a nice language, but hey - why would you bother investing effort in a Windows-only language, whereas javascript, perl or python is just as powerful and may be used on other platforms as well?

Peter Schott SSCrazy Eights Points: 9675 More actions · Answer 5

Probably the biggest reason to invest time in it is that MS is really investing time in PowerShell. Exchange 2007 can pretty much be driven by PowerShell. Anything you can do in the interface can be scripted and tweaked. From what I hear, MS is trying to do this with a lot of its server-class products.

I tend to agree on the whole, but I think that PowerShell has its advantages for MS-Only shops.

-Pete

Whisper9999 Hall of Fame Points: 3012 More actions · Answer 6

Thx, guys, for the posts. This is a Windows only shop so Powershell might be the way to go but I actually have done a little Perl on the Unix side. For some reason it never occurred to me to use it (or Python) on the Windows side!

Any other feedback, links, etc. would be much appreciated...

jezemine SSCrazy Eights Points: 8059 More actions · Answer 7

here's a post about using SMO from powershell:

http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dan/archive/2005/12/29/17703.aspx

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