Windows Scripting Host and Windows Network Management

Windows Scripting Host and Windows Network Management: "
Windows Scripting Host and VBScript
Windows Script Host (WSH) is a Windows administration tool. WSH creates an environment for hosting scripts. It is language-independent for WSH-compliant scripting engines for the Windows Operating Systems. It brings simple, powerful, and flexible scripting to the Windows platform, allowing you to run scripts from both the Windows desktop and the command prompt.

Windows Script Host is ideal for non-interactive scripting needs, such as logon scripting, administrative scripting, and machine automation. WSH provides improved systems administration capabilities through the use of the WSH Object Model. This runtime library includes objects, methods, and properties that you can use to map network drives or printers, retrieve and modify environment variables, create shortcuts, and read from and write to the Registry. You can use these functions to create logon scripts, configure users' desktops, create custom installation or configuration scripts, or perform other simple tasks.

Although the built-in capabilities of WSH are useful, WSH's real power comes from its ability to use COM to call objects that expose automation interfaces. Microsoft calls this capability ActiveX Scripting. I'll show you an example script that exploits the power of WSH to access the services of Excel and the Active Directory Server Interfaces (ADSI). But first, let's look at how the WSH pieces fit together."