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   From: tom_shelton@comcast.invalid   
      
   After serious thinking Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :   
   > 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.   
      
   LOL... You are an idiot.  PowerShell v2 lets you create remote sessions   
   you dolt.  You are stuck in v1.   
      
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   Tom Shelton   
      
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