Thou shalt not waste time doing repetitive and mundane tasks

This is the 10th commandment of system administration according to Brian Warshawsky’s article “Ten Commandments of system administration” over at NewsForge. I couldn’t agree more. You’ll find the article with links to the other nine commandments here. These articles are for Linux administrators so much of the content and the example scripts won’t be much use to Windows admins. But the message is perfectly valid. Linux admins have always had the power of scripting at their disposal and the benefit of an operating system which is powered by command line interfaces. Windows, though, is primarily GUI based, designed more for desktop users. That’s why you need Macro Scheduler to automate Windows applications and obey the 10th commandment!