[zacgarrett]

There are also lots of libraries for powershell that make it very easy to do things. For example MS provides a great way to manage Exchange via powershell. You can even go so far as getting a GUI in powershell.

As a sysadmin I use powershell for quite a few automation and management tasks on Windows servers. It is nice to have a interface to the server that I know will always be on the server and will update by itself. There is no need to install a third party scripting language just to script simple things that are difficult to do in the standard windows command line.