Overview
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
- Streamline IIS website administration—including creating consistent security configurations
PLUS—Get 100+ script samples on CD you can use or customize to help simplify the management of your system resources
Get 100+ sample scripts plus an eBook inside.
CD features:
- More than 100 sample scripts to adapt for your own work
- Timesaving scripting tools—including Script-o-Matic 1.0 and an evaluation version of PrimalScript
- Fully searchable electronic version of the book
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Synopsis
Get expert guidance on how to use scripting to automate Windows system administration—straight from the Microsoft scripting experts. This title features hands-on, self-paced learning exercises, timesaving tips, and sample scripts to help readers get more done in less time.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewScripting is the best learning investment most Windows administrators can make. Now there’s practical, self-paced training built around your needs as a sysadmin.
Microsoft’s new package assumes no programming experience (though a little VB knowledge will help). Once you’ve walked through the basics -- for example, adding intelligence to your scripts -- you’ll dive right into real tasks.
Start by learning to manipulate folders and filesystems; then use WMI to report on devices, modify registry entries, and switch IP addresses. You’ll create logon scripts, configure networking, automate Active Directory tasks, even script IIS 6 and Exchange 2003.
It’s all hands-on: you learn through exercises, and there are more than 100 scripts on the accompanying CD-ROM. Learn this stuff, and start saving time -- big time. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.