Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Lab 6 Modifying ComputerRoles.vbs

In this lab, you’ll modify ComputerRoles.vbs so that you can use it to turn on DHCP on various workstations.

Scenario

Your company’s network was set up by someone who really did not understand DHCP. In fact, the people who set up the network probably could not even spell DHCP, and as a result every workstation on the network is configured with a static IP address. This was bad enough when the network only had 100 workstations, but now the network has grown to over 300 workstations in the last couple of years. The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that used to keep track of the mappings between computer names and IP addresses is woefully out of date, which in the past month alone has resulted in nearly 30 calls to the ...