Advanced VBScript for Microsoft® Windows® Administrators

Chapter 13. Advanced Scripting in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

In this chapter:

Using New and Discontinued WMI Classes

Using the Win32_PingStatus Class

Configuring the Windows Firewall

Using Disk Quota Management

Using the DNS Provider

Using Active Directory Replication and Trusts

Using Internet Information Services 6.0

Managing Printing

Using Windows Update Services

Summary

Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 introduced a wide variety of new management capabilities, particularly through new WMI classes. We’ll take a look at some of the most useful of these, and show you some sample scripts that can make administrative tasks faster and easier.

Microsoft Windows 2000 created an enormous surge of interest in Windows administrative scripting. ...