Managing Enterprise Systems With the Windows Script Host

by Borge, Stein

• ISBN13: 9781893115675
• ISBN10: 1893115674
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Managing Enterprise Systems with the Windows Script Hostis targeted toward administrative and support staff in Microsoft networked environments with the aim of automating common administrative tasks. It provides practical solutions to common problems and detailed discussions of the underlying technology used in the solutions.Author Stein Borge starts with a general introduction to new features in recent versions of WSH, and then covers the file, shell, and network operations using built-in WSH objects. Borge also provides chapters on lesser-known but important aspects of WSH, including standard input/output streams and regular expressions, in addition to covering registry operations using the built-in shell objects and WMI objects.Managing Enterprise Systems with the Windows Script Hostthen goes on to cover how to manipulate application objects, such as Microsoft Office and CorelDRAW, and Internet Explorer. Borge also demonstrates how to perform common network tasks, such as network configuration and hardware, event log, and system information retrieval. You'll discover how to work with database access using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and how to implement e-mail operations using Collaborative Data Objects (CDO). You'll learn how to perform server administrative tasks such as user, IIS, and Exchange server using the Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) and, finally, you'll see how complex security operations are performed using WMI and ADSI.

Author Biography

Stein Borge has worked in the IT industry for the last 10 years

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
About the Technical Reviewer	xix
Introduction	1	(38)
Shell Operations	39	(30)
Logon Scripts and Scheduling	69	(34)
Networking Resources	103	(14)
File Operations	117	(36)
Input/Output Streams	153	(18)
Registry Operations	171	(20)
Regular Expressions	191	(20)
Application Automation	211	(34)
Network Administration/WMI	245	(86)
Internet Applications	331	(52)
Messaging Operations	383	(72)
Data Access	455	(98)
System Administration	553	(70)
Internet Information Server	623	(38)
Exchange Server	661	(44)
Security	705