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Part I
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2
3
4
5
Part II
6
7
8
9
10
Part III
11
12
13
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tents at a Glance
Covering the Basics
Starting from Scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Looping Through the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Adding Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Working with Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
More Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Basic Windows Administration
Working with the File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Working with Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Using WMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
WMI Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Querying WMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Advanced Windows Administration
Introduction to Active Directory Service Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Writing for ADSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Using ADO to Perform Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Configuring Network Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Using Subroutines and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
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Logon Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Working with the Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Working with Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
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Part V
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Contents at a Glance
Scripting Other Applications
Managing IIS 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Working with Exchange 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Troubleshooting WMI Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Appendices
VBScript Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
ADSI Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
WMI Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Documentation Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Special Folder Constants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
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Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Covering the Basics
Starting from Scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Running Your First Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Header Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Reference Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Worker Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Output Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Enhancing Your Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Modifying an Existing Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Modifying the Header Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Modifying the Reference Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Modifying the Worker Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Modifying the Output Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Exploring a Script: Step-by-Step Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
One Step Further: Customizing an Existing Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Looping Through the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Adding Power to Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
For EachNext . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Header Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Reference Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Worker Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
ForNext . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Header Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Reference Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
