[aklug] Re: PowerShell

From: Damien Hull <dhull@section9.us>
Date: Tue Oct 09 2012 - 14:32:05 AKDT

Yes, GUI tools send commands to powershell in 2012. Everything is done
in powershell. Windows administrators have two choices. Learn
powershell or move over for someone who will.

I have a powershell book on order.

Sent from my iPad

On Oct 9, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs
<erinn.looneytriggs@gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the nicer things in Windows 2012 is that GUI work gets converted
> into powershell syntax. So say configuring up the RADIUS server in
> server 2012 via the GUI will give you a listing at the end of the
> powershell command necessary to do the same job.
>
> It is a crutch of course, but when I first got into Linux I found it
> much easier to use the GUI tools and then figure out what they did
> underneath. Actually I still do that, I didn't know the details behind
> what system-config-date (Fedora) did until just recently, had no idea
> about /etc/adjtime and hwclock.
>
> It creates an easier learning curve.
>
> -Erinn
>
>
>
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