It’s certainly not for that
Who, Me? Monday is upon us, the weekend is receding, and the rest of the week is stretching out into an unbroken chain of managerial mayhem. Take a moment to watch a newly minted member of management come unstuck in today’s Who, Me? « Your stupid PowerShell script is broken » was the subject of an email that marked the beginning of the brief relationship between our hero, « Vincenzo » (not his name), and a newly hired manager. The newbie had already gained a reputation as being « difficult », but Vincenzo had yet to make a judgement. Right up until the shouty email arrived, cc’ed to pretty much every bigwig in the company. A top priority ticket was swiftly opened to deal with the shoutiness. Vincenzo couldn’t understand what his innocuous bit of PowerShell script had done to cause such an outburst. PowerShell is, after all, a handy tool for admins seeking to automate tasks. This script, called » SiteReview « , was an example of the breed: « You type in your email address and the internal AD [Active Directory] OU [Organisation Unit] site you wanted queried, » he told us, « and it sends you the group member list of the AD Groups in that site via email. » Pretty simple stuff, and used by the company’s security auditors to ensure the right accounts were in the right OUs. Vincenzo hadn’t bothered with a readme – those who needed to use it were trained on its use; it was just a handy bit of script.
