Your Name (optional)
Your Job Description
Not your title, but a couples of words on what you do.
Company Name (optional)
Number of servers at your company:
Number of desktops at your company:
What percentage (%) of your overall work time is spent on scripting?
The Percentages In The Next Two Questions Should Total Up to Near 100%
What percentage (%) of your script development time is for server systems
What percentage (%) of your script development time is for desktop systems ?
Which General Automation Activities Do You Script For?
Desktop OS Management
Server OS Management
Active Directory Management
Logon Scripts
What specialized systems do you script for? (optional)
Internet Information Server Management
Exchange Server Management
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Management
Systems Management Server (SMS) Management
Please list any other significant types of scripting you do (optional):
What pecent of your scripts must generate formatted reports?
What scripting languages do you currently use for automating tasks in Windows?
VBScript
PowerShell / Monad
JScript
Perl or PerlScript
.BAT / .CMD / CMD.EXE / NT Shell Scripts
SMS Installer / Wise Script
KiXtart
What other scripting languages do you currently use (optional) ?
What scripting language is your dominant one?
What other tools, utilities, etc do you regularly integrate into your scripts?
Which of the following APIs or subsystems do your scripts need to access?
WMI
ADSI
Registry
File System
Setting Permissions
Windows Installer
What environments do your scripts generally run in?
cscript (command line wsh)
wscript (interactive wsh)
HTA (HTML Application)
ASP Pages
Microsoft Office
Client Side HTML
Perl Interpreter
Windows PE (during workstation build)
Are there other APIs, subsystems or environments that your scripts work with or in? (optional)
What editor(s) do you use to create and change scripts?
What is your preferred primary method to learn new scripting skills?
Classroom Lecture
Hands On Labs
Hacking Sample Scripts
Reading Paper Books
Reading Online Material (ebooks, help files)
What is your preferred secondary method to learn new scripting skills?
Classroom Lecture
Hands On Labs
Hacking Sample Scripts
Reading Paper Books
Reading Online Material (ebooks, help files)
What learning methods do you generally avoid?
Classroom Lecture
Hands On Labs
Hacking Sample Scripts
Reading Paper Books
Reading Online Material (ebooks, help files)
What other comments or observations do you have about learning methods (optional) ?
I will be persuing PowerShell training in the next:
3 Months
6 Months
12 Months
Not in the foreseable future
Will probably self study
Are there any specific topics or entire courses you would like to have scripting training on (not limited to PowerShell)?
What types of scripting support resources do you make the most use of? (please do not limit your answer to training type services. For example: community sites, user groups, conferences are valid answers) (optional)
Are there any other questions that should have been asked on this survey (please include your answer)?
If it is OK to contact you to clarify any of your answers, please provide your email address (No marketting is ever done to the email address you provide in this survey) (optional)