Ok , you can call me out on specific relevance here.., for the most part I astudiously avoid having to admin windows, (we have someone else for that). However there is plenty of glue and sticktape stuff between IRIX,Linux,OSX and windows that perl really helps with. If you're using exchange then I'm guessing that you also have an Active Directory, in which case I suggest you learn Net::LDAP which has negated hours of boring "click-edit-close,repeat" nonsense for me, in addition to the stickytaping of AD to an openLDAP directory (that is actually Organised!) <frothing>active -#%@#% directory #%^*#(</frothing>. If you enjoy a good reg-hack, and lets face it MS didn't remember to put enough buttons in Win2k and some stuff you can do no other way. Win32::TieRegistry even supports connecting to remote registries, I have used this in a previous job for auditing and reg-hacking.

PS, in the days of NT4.0 I did use perl login scripts to do some drive mapping and attempted ENV magic.


I can't believe it's not psellchecked

In reply to Re: Perl For Windows System Administration by submersible_toaster
in thread Perl For Windows System Administration by ellem

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