On 16 Jan 2012, at 13:43, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote: 2008 adds PowerShell and exposes a lot more admin features to the cli. I've never used it but I hear you can do anything in the cli you can do in the GUI. That came in with Vista/Server 2008/Win7 so it's not really greatly applicable to PATHWORKS. I haven't used Powershell yet either but I have heard its very comprehensive. Mark, The cmd environment is useful, like turning off a pc, say, to make your daughter go to bed. .. I will admit it does have uses. I was thinking along the lines of rebooting IIS every time it dies, memory leaks or stops working for other random reasons ;) When the unix tools kit is installed a lot more functionality is available. May be I'm too fond of ascii user interfaces... You and me both :) -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson