{"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. Oh, and if you haven&#8217;t voted yet, please do.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been to the SAPIEN blog, hopefully you&#8217;ve noticed the simple poll: &#8220;Are you using PowerShell in a production environment?&#8221;  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.  Here are some reasons I can think of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[296,209,28,62],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-windows-powershell","tag-management","tag-microsoft","tag-powershell","tag-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}