Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Chapter 14. Configuring Networking Components

In this chapter, you’ll look at some of the ways that using Microsoft Visual Basic Script (VBScript) can simplify basic networking tasks. You begin with a common task: switching from static to dynamic IP addresses. This task might seem to be a no-brainer—that is, you just open the network connection, select Properties, choose TCP/IP, and select Obtain An IP Address Automatically—but when you do it a thousand times or more while merging a remote, previously static site into your Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) hierarchy, the task is daunting.

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