[aklug] Re: PowerShell

From: Jim MacDonald <jim@macdonald.org>
Date: Tue Oct 09 2012 - 17:13:41 AKDT

And the best part of THIS email is.....

Sent from my iPad ...

On Oct 9, 2012, at 14:32, Damien Hull <dhull@section9.us> wrote:

> 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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