Don’t let the tool you already know decide PowerShell vs. Power Automate for you. That instinct feels efficient: you got fluent in PowerShell during your first sysadmin job, or you built your first approval chain in Power Automate, and now every automation request gets routed through whichever skill is already in your hands. It’s also how you end up with a PowerShell script handling SharePoint approval routing, or a Power Automate flow looping through a 40,000-row CSV one API call at a time.
Before you route the next ticket (new-hire provisioning, a stale batch of Active Directory accounts, a Teams alert that has to reach an invoicing system with no API), score it against how PowerShell and Power Automate are built.
