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PowerShell scripting is one of the most underrated skills in IT — and one of the fastest ways to stand out from everyone else on your team. Here's why investing a few weekends into it is worth every minute. Here's a story that sums it up. A mid-size company's IT team used to spend almost a full afternoon every time they onboarded a batch of new employees. One person would open a spreadsheet, then open the Active Directory console, and create each account by hand. Click, type, save. Click, type, save. Over and over, for hours. Then someone on the team learned PowerShell. They wrote a script — about 30 lines of code — that read the same spreadsheet and created every account automatically. What used to take four hours now took under three minutes. Nobody asked them to do it. They just got tired of the manual work and decided to fix it. That's what PowerShell scripting really is: the ability to stop doing the same thing twice. Key Takeaways PowerShell scrip...