Chapter 13. Using Scripts for Consistent Administration

The Microsoft Windows scripting infrastructure has grown dramatically since the late 1990s, and available documentation, administrator knowledge, and the number of books dedicated to the subject have grown along with it. Given the breadth of documentation available, it might be argued that a one-chapter discussion of how to script is superfluous, and we agree—we have no intention here to teach you how to script. But scripting is fundamentally important to Windows administration, and our goal is to show you ways it can simplify and improve the quality of your system administration by allowing you to implement ...

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