For a windows administrator, there have been several choices for automating tasks.  The most powerful and most recent shell to be used is Powershell.  A new version of Powershell was released on 5/2 that brings the new language some much needed features.  Check it out here:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7c8051c2-9bfc-4c81-859d-0864979fa403&DisplayLang=en