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Automating Windows Administration with VBScript: Hands-OnLeveraging Windows Scripting Technologies
Course: 558
Type: Hands-On Training
Duration: 5 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Automate common Windows administrative tasks using scripting technologies
- Use VBScript and other languages in the Windows Script Host
- Automate large-scale Active Directory (AD) changes using ADSI
- Manage Windows configurations with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Develop Web-based management solutions using ASP and client-side scripts
- Extend scripting solutions with widely available components
Course Benefits By leveraging Windows automation technologies, organizations can lower their Total Cost of Ownership and improve administrative processes. In this hands-on course, you gain practical experience exploiting Windows scripting technologies to automate common administrative tasks, effectively manage resources and deliver solutions via the Web.Who Should Attend Experienced administrators seeking to more efficiently manage Windows systems. Knowledge at the level of Course 595, "Windows Server 2003 Comprehensive Introduction," and Course 597, "Deploying and Managing Window Server 2003," is required. Scripting experience is also recommended.Hands-On Training You gain practical experience automating administrative tasks in a Windows operating system. Exercises include:
- Publishing resources in the Active Directory
- Setting up self-populating groups
- Searching for and updating objects in the directory
- Performing a hardware inventory
- Reading, writing and rotating event logs
- Creating, sharing and securing folders programmatically
- Setting local and domain user passwords
- Documenting the shared folders on all servers
Course 558 Content
- Increased administrator productivity
- Improved IT service delivery
- Sophisticated custom management tools
- Writing code in VBScript
- Running scripts in Cscript and Wscript
- Debugging scripts
- Adopting alternative scripting engines
- Creating and managing files and folders with the FileSystemObject
- Reading and writing files
- Mapping network drives
- Developing scripts with a graphical user interface (GUI)
- Receiving and processing arguments
- Creating command line utilities
- Binding to directory objects using LDAP
- Reading and writing directory object attributes
- Manipulating objects with ADSI methods
- Managing NT 4.0 domains with the WinNT provider
- Modifying local SAM databases, shares and services
- Resetting local user account passwords and modifying local group membership
- Adding and moving user objects
- Searching for users with SQL queries
- Importing user information from external sources
- Updating common user attributes
- Adding and deleting users
- Automating group updates with Scheduled Tasks
- Setting page file size
- Changing event log sizes
- Assigning volume labels
- Performing a hardware inventory
- Querying for driver settings
- Reading Windows Installer Service configuration data
- Scheduling event log rotation
- Changing network settings
- Detecting and restarting stopped services
- Installing software on remote machines
- Terminating remote processes
- Building a WMI subscriber
- Alerting administrators to potential problems
- Saving script results as HTML
- Posting reports on the Web server
- Enabling user account self-service
- Reconfiguring workstations with client-side JScripts
- Sending e-mails using Collaboration Data Objects (CDO)
- Managing Exchange using CDO for Exchange (CDOEX)
- Modifying Windows Explorer views with the shell object
- Incorporating standard file management dialogs
- Configuring security using SetACL
- Finding the COM objects you need
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