Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI by Don Jones

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This uncomplicated reference demystifies scripting after which indicates you the way to supply new scripts from scratch. you'll be generating helpful scripts right now as you research the VBScript language and the way to keep watch over approximately each element of the home windows working procedure with WMI and the energetic listing prone Interface (ASDI). it is possible for you to to construct your personal administrative websites and use complex scripting applied sciences corresponding to script encryption, scripting parts, and script protection. The publication closes with nonetheless extra ready-made instance scripts followed through entire line-by-line reasons. The CD contains the entire code from the publication and trial models of PrimalScript 3.0 and VBSEdit. A spouse site offers updates and errata.Inside you will discover solutions to such questions as: * How do you write powerful logon scripts? bankruptcy eleven * How do you write scripts that question and alter person and crew info? Chapter16 * how are you going to question the IP addresses from a number of community adapters in a number of distant desktops? bankruptcy 19 * how are you going to layout, write, run, attempt, and debug your individual administrative web content? bankruptcy 24 * how will you reuse code among a number of scripts? bankruptcy 25

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Exe, then ask it to execute the double-clicked script. To see WScript in action, try this: 1. Right-click your desktop and select New; then point to Text File. 2. vbs. 3. Right-click the file and choose Edit. By default, Windows registered Notepad as the handler for the Edit action, so a blank Notepad window will open. 4. Echo "Displaying Output" and save the file. 5. Close Notepad. 6. vbs. 7. ") MsgBox "Hello, " & V These aren't terribly complex scripts, but they'll serve to illustrate some important concepts.

Exe to execute your scripts, and when I refer to WSH I'll generally do so as a nickname for WScript. exe, which is used to execute scripts on a command line. The difference with Cscript is that it doesn't provide any non-graphical means of collecting user input. In other words, although you can use a Cscript script to display command-line output, you can't use it to get input from the command-line window. Try this and you'll see what I mean: 1. Open a command-line window. 2. Change to your Desktop folder.

You'll also have your first experience with an administrative script! Suppose you have several scripts ready to run—what do you do with them? Do you load them into Visual Basic and compile them? How do you distribute them to your users for use as logon scripts? What about when you're ready to start writing your own scripts? What tools are available, and how well do they work? This chapter is designed to introduce you to your scripting toolbox, the bits you'll need to write, run, edit, and debug your administrative scripts.

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