With each new Windows OS release, the command prompt gets further away from the user. Oracle still ships most of its main server utilities as command-line utility programs, so it's becoming ...

Are you one of those efficient administrators who insists on automating as many tasks as possible in your environment? Yeah, okay, me too. Maybe “lazy” is a better word than “efficient,” but it’s all ...

Do your users like to tinker with scripts? Keep yours out of harm’s way by using Microsoft’s Script Encoder. Greg Shultz shows you how to use the Encoder for basic script protection. If you’ve been ...

In this chapter, we will review what Windows Script Host (WSH) actually is. As WSH will be used throughout this book, this first chapter provides the necessary foundation required to understand ...

As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

And so we come to the latest chapter in my odyssey to create a VBScript logon script for my client who wants to leave KiXtart far behind. When the logon script runs, I need to make sure that the ...

The Windows Script Host, or WSH, facilitates the execution of scripts on your computer such as VB or Java. Enabled by default, WSH enables system administrators to automate a number of processes on a ...

Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work. Scripting in Windows has taken different ...

I want to write a script that pings a server and if it responds, map a hardcoded network drive, pretty simple. What language should I attempt to do it in? I want to learn Perl and know it minimally, ...