As a windows and exchange admin I welcome the powershell capabilities for
cli management and scripting, but am puzzled at the fact that it is not an
either / or management paradigm. The fact that so much is deliberately
omitted from the Exchange GUI that must be done from the shell seems
somewhat perverse and I can only think this is a marketing sop to pander to
the growing influence of linux admins who demand cli and eschew any form of
gui as a point of principle.
As an example I have just had to construct a PS command of over 100 chars to
configure address re-writing on an edge server, which took a while to
research the correct params and syntax and then accurately type it in. In
the sane world a right click and quick filling in of 2 fields in a form
would suffice.
Most admins I know dont have the luxury of working full-time on 1 BO product
to become that familiar with the large no of cmdlets and complex syntax,
(and also dont need to prove how good they are by exhibitingthe faculty of
memorizing 100 char commands to fulfil simple tasks).
If there is a rationale behind this strategy I would welcome being better
informed.
Thanks,
Geejay