Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Automating administration tasks

I started my career as a web developer and later moved on to system administration. My job title at that time was associate system administrator. One of the common service requests from the development team manager was to deploy software to the software engineer's computers. There were around 20 people in the company, and since I was a junior person, I always had to go and install the software on all 20 computers. It was painful, but since it was just 20 computers, it was somewhat manageable. But imagine if it was hundreds of computers; I would be spending days doing boring and repetitive tasks. From a company point of view, this is still at the cost of operations. This was just an example, but a regular helpdesk ...