systemmanagement

Why would I choose Powershell over WMI to develop management interfaces?

We are discussing development of an improved management infrastructure for our distributed system. We use COM, web services and .NET components. Since we're based on Microsoft Windows Server XP/2003, I guess, we basically have two options: Powershell cmdlets WMI classes using System.Management and WMI providers for native code (class, ...

Which tool / technology: System management for databases and dependent services

A follow-up on this system management question: Since I probably will not get much feedback on serverfault I'll give it a try here. My main concern is to reflect the dependencies between the databases, services ans tasks/jobs I'll have to manage. Besides considering Powershell, I even thought about using MSBuild because it would allow...