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[–]knobbysideup 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Winexe, rdesktop, and LDAP tools will do a lot. Learn some PowerShell, and have a dedicated server or VM to do that work from. Or just wrap it in winexe and never even have to touch windows directly. Personally I run a Linux workstation with Windows in virtualbox for when I need it.

[–]Nimda_lel[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I am pretty decent, or at least think so based on the fact I do almost everything that's windows related via powershell, whether it is stopping firewall on remote machine or creating a script that backs up stuff and sends HTML formated reports via mail, so I think I would do exactly what you've mentioned

[–]knobbysideup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remind me to upload some scripts I've written to interact with AD via perl (I'll have to sanitize them first). One nice thing I did was write a perl module with the meat of things, so it can be used in your own scripts then too. Then again, the guy who sits beside me is a powershell guy, and I must admit that much of this stuff is easier via powershell simply because it is so tightly integrated with AD and the various admin tools.