Special Edition Using Microsoft Active Directory

Logon Scripts

This section discusses logon scripts and software installation through group policy. Although group policy has other features, such as the capability to manage the public key infrastructure (PKI), Kerberos, and IPSec, these technologies are covered in later chapters—or in the case of IPSec, other books.

Naming this section Logon Scripts is really a misnomer because you actually can take virtually any .vbs file and execute it at the command line. You also can attach it to a computer through group policy and run it at startup/shutdown or attach it to user group policy and run it as a logon/logon script. They are referred to as logon scripts in this section, however, for two reasons. First, until now, attaching a script to a user could ...