Over the past few days I’ve been trying to build a number of Windows server administration scripts – you know, for adding users to the Active Directory, creating new IIS websites, doing various stuff – and I get the distinct feeling that this is not something you normally do.

Whereas Linux has tools that do the job pretty much for you – everything is script-based anyhow, there is no point-and-click GUI – Windows requires you to dig into scripting, PowerShell, WSH objects, or any similar methodology to try to automate the task.

It’s almost like no one has ever done this before. And the few who have managed to penetrate the API’s enough to do so, have gone on to become employed at the Microsoft Scripting department as technology gurus.

There is a short clip from Monty Python that summarizes my feelings about this. It’s available here, in MP3 format.