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I automated Windows and SQL Server installations / configurations using Powershell. I initially started with Ruby but eventually switched over to Powershell due to all of the things like being able to use .NET objects from within Powershell, etc.

If you work with Windows, this is a really awesome tool.

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Yeah, Powershell is indeed extremely powerfull. Do you use it for something else also?

I use powershell to automaticly update multiple databases to the latest migration (but that's mostly because i'm using Entity Framework with .Net projects).

I'm still learning of all of the cool things that can be done with Powershell. So far, it's just been for server builds and configurations.

It would be great if, in the future, Powershell could be used for web automation. They already have WatiN, but you need to use C# to use it. While that is no problem, it would be great to be able to use Powershell for that as well.

Didn't know of WatIn, thanks!

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