Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Chapter 16. Logon Scripts

In this chapter, you’ll look at creating logon scripts. Logon scripts have traditionally been either nonexistent or simple batch files containing a series of net use commands. With the power of Microsoft Visual Basic Script (VBScript), however, you can make a number of intelligent decisions in your logon scripts and bring a new level of manageability and configurability to the table.

Before You Begin

To work through the material presented in this chapter you need to be familiar with the following concepts from earlier chapters:

• Using WMI

• Using ADSI

• Using the InStr function

• Implementing For...Next constructions

• Implementing Select Case constructions

• Implementing the file system object

After completing this chapter you will be familiar ...