I'm no longer an admin, but I used to be. I used Perl under Windows for:

• user creation : create an account in windows, in Unix, in SQL server, create the home directory, copy the default content, set permissions, etc. etc. etc. (I kept forgeting at least one of the necessary tasks if I had to do this all by hand)
• automatic download and import of data: the users needed new (advertising related) data downloaded and imported into their software each day. Can you imagine having to do this by hand?
• various data related tasks: take this ForPro database and that text file and import it into Oracle, copy this data from Notes to Oracle, delete this, recompute that ...
• some a little crazy things like searching for Word documents through all user and group directories and changing the paper size to A4, changing Word templates to normal documents, etc. etc. etc.

Jenda

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