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   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
   In message , Ezekiel wrote:   
      
   >>"Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in message   
   >>news:in8vd8$ee7$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >>   
   >>They scale up to thousands, even tens of thousands of machines, which your   
   >>Windows scripts will not.   
   >   
   > For starters there is no reason why my scripts wouldn't scale to thousands   
   > of users ...   
      
   One obvious reason is how you do remote execution. On Linux/Unix systems,   
   you can take just about any local command   
      
       cmd   
      
   and execute it on a remote host as follows:   
      
       ssh remote_host cmd   
      
   whereas on Windows you can’t. The best PowerShell can manage is to use the   
   complex and clumsy WMI functions to perform tasks on remote machines, which   
   is completely different from how they’re done locally.   
      
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