Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Chapter 1. Starting from Scratch

In this chapter, you begin your journey down the winding road that leads to the automation of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Our first step will be to examine several scripts written in Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). Then you’ll dissect a few scripts so that you can see what elements make up a script. Finally—and this is the best part—you’ll write several scripts from scratch. Many of the concepts covered in this chapter will come up throughout this book, as well as in your day-to-day life as a network administrator, so be sure you understand the material here before moving on.

Before You Begin

To work through this chapter, you should be familiar with the following concept:

• Basic Windows Server ...