Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition and Microsoft Windows Script Host Essentials

Introduction

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage Windows networks by using the Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Microsoft Visual Basic, Scripting Edition (VBScript) language. During the course, students will work on real-world scripts that they can use to manage computers running Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. This course also provides an overview of other technologies where students can use script, such as Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

Pre-Requisites

This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:

• Practical experience of using and administering Windows Server 2003, the Active
• Directory directory service, system security.
• Practical experience of using and administering services.
• Practical experience of using systems management information.
• Awareness of the potential uses of logon scripts.

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Run and work with scripts, including writing, debugging, and troubleshooting.
• Write scripts that access objects and use an object browser.
• Use Visual Basic, Scripting Edition to create effective and efficient administrative scripts.
• Create error-handling routines and use a debugger to locate and fix logic problems in scripts.
• Use Visual Basic, Scripting Edition to interact with ADSI.
• Call logon scripts from batch files, perform common tasks using logon scripts, and assign logon scripts to users.
• Use scheduling in scripts, send e-mails, manage the registry, and work with drives, folders, and files using scripts.
• Write scripts that gather information and automate common management tasks by using WMI.

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