Just wanted to share some tips on using PowerShell. Important routine tasks can be very handy in PS. I would like to give one example.

This is within Exchange, but with PS we have automated the auditing of our client devices. We have put together a list of allowed devices and users. The PowerShell script pulls ActiveSync users and their associated devices. If a device has been idle for too long, or is not approved, the script removes the ActiveSync relationship and disables AS for the user. So, instead of having to periodically do security checks on remote devices, it is automated.

Just an FYI...

On the other hand, MS does have some challenges as the pendulum swings toward distributed independent systems. The "domain" made admininstration easier for large groups of systems, but the new paradigm is consumption based, not management based, and can decrease the need for centralized control enterprise wide. Pools of administration may rise. But this opens the concern of federation and portability...

But I digress...