Automate everyday administrative tasks—and take greater control of your Windows networks—with this hands-on guide to scripting. Your instructor, a Microsoft Certified Trainer with more than a decade of enterprise consulting experience, expertly builds your scripting expertise with labs and lessons you complete at your own pace. From writing your first scripts from scratch with Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Windows Script Host (WSH)—to exploring the programmatic advantages of using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI)—you’ll learn timesaving ways to set up, deploy, and manage your Windows-based systems.
Teach yourself how to write and run scripts to:
Automate folder and file management—including performing multiple functions-within a single script
Configure network components using WMI
Perform global—or select—changes to users and groups in Active Directory directory service using ADSI
Design logon scripts that increase system manageability and configurability
Monitor and manage printers
Edit the registry—avoiding common pitfalls
Track and respond to critical events
Simplify user management for Microsoft Exchange Server
