This is a session based upon lessons that have been learned through a career progressing from SysAdmin to Architect, then partner, consultant, and now vendor Solutions Architect.

It counters these lessons with the things I have seen and discussed as a leader of multiple user groups, including 2 PowerShell User Groups More flavor is added by my experience with editing and manuscript reviews for major publishers and the PowerShell Conference Book. Finally, with writing a book on automation focused on the logic and reasoning for what we are trying to accomplish, I see this is not a typical roadmap when starting with basic automation.

There are many considerations to automation that go far beyond basic scripting, and I think this is a bit different from the normal perspective of starting to script and getting more advanced over time. I hope that looking at the broader picture and considerations will lead to more in-depth conversations about automation, both in the session and after.