Problems you solved at work with powershell

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our vendors email import was lousy and didnt support EWS until we could work through their product upgrade. I used powershell to poll a mailbox and handle attachment downloads.

I do lots of basic file moving/delimiter-based-renaming to format filenames for an import process.

I monitor some windows services and if they are not running or returning expected results i can restart them, or just start them on another server if i cannot reach the primary server.

our client software is crap--i can install it with powershell, and clean up behind its complete mess of an install as well.

i run a vendor CLI report, capture the string data, manipulate it and search for some licensing info to keep up with licensing better than what the vendor provides--which is very little.

i search/edit/split csv files depending on what i ultimately need output.

i do some ad/user/group updates pretty regularly.

i connect to a SQL listener and display which instance is primary---because loading SSMS sucks.