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VBScript, WMI, and ADSI Unleashed: Using VBScript, WMI, and ADSI to Automate Windows® Administration
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VBScript, WMI, and ADSI Unleashed: Using VBScript, WMI, and ADSI to Automate Windows® Administration

by Don Jones
May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
13h 13m
English
Sams
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Chapter 23. Scripts Packaging and Protection

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Do you ever worry about your users seeing your script source code and somehow learning more than they should? Or, perhaps you just want to ensure that your scripts aren’t modified and run by someone who shouldn’t be doing so. Encrypted or encoded scripts offer a solution to these problems, and Microsoft offers a Script Encoder tool to use with your administrative scripts. The Encoder can take a script and turn it into something like this:

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Although it looks like gibberish, ...

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