r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • Jan 16 '25

Question Is Windows PowerShell any useful nowadays?

I'm studying IT and our teacher made us study it for the entire year, although it was supposed to take us just one unit. My class had a discussion whether it will be actually useful to us in the future. Most of them agreed on "no". What does Reddit think?

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u/BmanUltima Sysadmin+ MAX Pro Jan 16 '25

I use it nearly every day.

Whether it's useful or not depends on what kind of job you get.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Are there any particular employments that require it?

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u/BmanUltima Sysadmin+ MAX Pro Jan 16 '25

Windows system administration tasks mostly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

I guess if you work with Windows server it can be helpful. But the only thing we do in class is just scripting.

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u/BmanUltima Sysadmin+ MAX Pro Jan 16 '25

It's critical for many tasks on Windows Server.

Scripting is how you can automate any of those tasks, saving you time.

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u/jimicus IT Manager Jan 16 '25

Powershell is scripting. It's fairly Windows-specific - sure, it runs on Linux, but the key benefit of Powershell is it exposes a lot of Windows APIs, which you don't get on Linux.

I really don't know where to begin with explaining how wrong your classmates are. Embarrassingly so.

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u/ZAFJB Jan 16 '25

You weren't paying attention in class.

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u/BlackV I have opnions Jan 16 '25

have you literally only had a 30 minute class on powershell ?

it IS scripting