Managing Enterprise Systems with the Windows Scripting Host is targeted towards administrative and support staff in Microsoft networked environments with the aim of automating common administrative tasks. It provides practical solutions to common problems as well as detailed discussions of the underlying technology used in the solutions.

Author Stein Borge provides 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 recent additions to WSH of standard input/output streams and regular expressions, as well as covering registry operations using the built-in Shell objects and WMI objects.

Managing Enterprise Systems with the Windows Scripting Host then goes on to cover how to manipulate application objects, such as Microsoft Office and Corel Draw. Internet Explorer is automated, providing the ability to retrieve web information and flexible event driven graphical user interface. Coverage of WMI demonstrates how to perform common network tasks, such as network configuration, hardware, event log, and system information. Database access is shown using ActiveX Data objects (ADO), while E-mail operations are implemented using Collaborative Data Objects (CDO). Server administrative tasks such as user, IIS and Exchange server are performed using Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI), and finally complex security operations are demonstrated using WMI and ADSI.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Shell operations
• Chapter 3: Logon Scripts and Scheduling
• Chapter 4: Network operations
• Chapter 5: File Operations
• Chapter 6: Standard Input and Output Streams
• Chapter 7: Registry Operations
• Chapter 8: Regular Expressions
• Chapter 9: Application Automation
• Chapter 10: System Administration (WMI)
• Chapter 11: Internet Operations
• Chapter 12: E-mail Operations (CDO)
• Chapter 13: Database Operations (ADO)
• Chapter 14: Network Administration (ADSI)
• Chapter 15: Internet Information Services Administration (ADSI)
• Chapter 16: Exchange Server Administration (ADSI)
• Chapter 17: Security Operations (WMI and ADSI)
• Index