{"id":665,"date":"2008-09-23T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/powershell-production-poll\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T05:29:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T13:29:56","slug":"powershell-production-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/powershell-production-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerShell Production Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/powershell-sample.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/powershell-sample-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"powershell-sample\" width=\"244\" height=\"144\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> If you&#8217;ve been to the SAPIEN blog in the last few days, hopefully you&#8217;ve noticed the simple poll: &#8220;Are you using PowerShell in a production environment?&#8221;\u00a0 Right now 75% of respondents are using PowerShell today to manage their network. I&#8217;m curious about the other 25%. I&#8217;m not passing judgement but am genuinely interested why an organization is NOT using PowerShell.\u00a0 Here are some reasons I can think of and I expect there others I haven&#8217;t considered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We don&#8217;t see PowerShell&#8217;s value or have nothing to manage that requires it.<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t have the training or experience to deploy it.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s coming, but is a low priority.<\/li>\n<li>Management doesn&#8217;t recognize\/understand\/appreciate PowerShell.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re waiting for PowerShell v2.0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are these the reasons for the other 25%?\u00a0 Or what else is holding back adoption?\u00a0 I&#8217;m sincerely interested. 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