Agreed, I only picked up PowerShell a few months back, but it has been a life saver.

It has allowed me to:

- Populate a central repository of completed backups from all remote servers to watch for failures using SSRS.

- Script a remote start up and shut down of all SAP services on SQL clusters for monthly patching.

- Script the remote startup and shutdown of SQL services and bouncing of servers.

- Push SQL Alerts to all SQL servers to create some standards across our global infrastructure.

If you haven't used it yet, I would begin reading. Very easy to pick up.