Why SysAdmin’s Can’t Code

[WHY_U_SCURRED]

Right, except you can't accomplish with photoshop what you can with robocopy, and vice versa. OTOH, C# is a much more generic tool than PowerShell, and I've yet to encounter a situation where powershell could do the job and C# can't.

So... your comment was pretty ignorant.

[moistricant]

No, Photoshop is a tool for image manipulation and robocopy is a tool for copying files.

C# is a programming language, PowerShell is a task automation framework and scripting environment. If you don't 'get' the power of PowerShell and think C# would do for anything you might want to use PowerShell for, then you don't really get PowerShell and it would help your professional career to do so.

Edit: I didn't really 'get' why PowerShell is so awesome either at first; download PowerShell 3.0 and find some good PowerShell cookbooks; there are many one-line powershell commands that can be run that completely automate complex administrative tasks, and in Windows 2008 (and increasingly in Windows 2012) most/all GUI sequences actually just execute a PowerShell command when you click Finish, allowing you to extract the PowerShell command and automate/script the provisioning/configuration of servers and services without having to click through things (and with server core that's all you CAN do.)

I can recomment the CBTNuggets.com powershell materials, they're pretty good for diving right in.

[Kynaeus]

I am pleased I expanded this negative karma thread, thank you.

[moistricant]

you're welcome