Overview
Get guidance from a well-known scripting expert—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). This tutorial delivers hands-on, self-paced learning labs to help you get started automating Microsoft Windows administration—one step at a time.
Discover how to:
- Manage folders and files with a single script
- Configure network components with Windows Management Instrumentation
- Administer users and groups using subroutines and Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI)
- Design logon scripts to configure and maintain user environments
- Monitor and manage network printers
- Back up and edit the registry—avoiding common pitfalls
- Handle errors and troubleshoot scripts
- Simplify administration for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Internet Information Services 6.0
Includes a CD featuring:
- All practice exercises
- 100+ sample scripts to adapt for your own work
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
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Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewIf you're responsible for Windows infrastructure, you should be scripting. Microsoft's VBScript is perfectly designed for the task, and Microsoft VBScript Step by Step is perfectly designed for mastering it.
You'll learn by using VBScript for things you actually might do. Your very first script won't be "Hello, World": it's a six-line script confirming that all your servers have admin tools installed. Right up front, Microsoft enterprise consultant Ed Wilson teaches you how to read and adapt existing scripts, so you can start leveraging everyone else's scripts immediately.
Then, using Wilson's extensive collection of hands-on practice exercises and sample scripts, you'll learn how to streamline every corner of day-to-day Windows administration: file systems, folders, WMI, networking and network printing, the registry, logon scripts, even Active Directory, IIS 6.0, and Exchange. This book may save you more time than anything else you read this year. Bill Camarda, from the February 2007 Read Only