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Re:Chocolatey - Windows Package Manager by mhitza on Sunday October 09, 2011 @08:51PM (#3091824)
From what I remember it has an object oriented style, i.e. you don't have to parse text for a specific column you want (you call the appropriate method).

And you also get easy integration with the .NET libraries.

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Re:Chocolatey - Windows Package Manager by zacgarrett on Sunday October 09, 2011 @08:58PM (#3091836)
There are also lots of libraries for powershell that make it very easy to do things. For example MS provides a great way to manage Exchange via powershell. You can even go so far as getting a GUI in powershell.

As a sysadmin I use powershell for quite a few automation and management tasks on Windows servers. It is nice to have a interface to the server that I know will always be on the server and will update by itself. There is no need to install a third party scripting language just to script simple things that are difficult to do in the standard windows command line.

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