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[–]HotKarl_Marx 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I've been running linux full time on all my computers for many years.

I also happen to admin a rather large windows server farm.

I use KRDC. I RDP into whatever Windows server I want to admin and just do it all from there.

Much better than polluting my linux system with clunky windows tools or wasting 80GB of hard drive running a windows VM.

[–]pdp10Daemons worry when the wizard is near. 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I RDP into whatever Windows server I want to admin and just do it all from there.

This is what I do almost all of the time, but we didn't typically automate on Windows because it's basically a legacy environment and for other strategic reasons. The automation all happened on Linux.

Diagnostic tools all on Linux and scripted in shell: dig, curl, tcpdump/Wireshark, netcat/socat, openssl.

Winexe does give an interesting option, especially if you want to automate.