Managing Enterprise Systems with the Windows Script Host

"Enterprise System Management 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 options 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. "Enterprise System Management 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.