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Windows Management - Programming and Scripting
Scripting Windows management is one of those good ideas that you might not have gotten around to trying yet.
Perhaps you're not sure what you could accomplish with a script that you can't accomplish from the graphical interface.
Perhaps you're worried about the learning curve—you don't know whether the time scripting saves you would make up for the time you spend learning to use it.
Or maybe you're a little lost in the crowd of scripting TLAs and vocabulary—WSH, WMI, ADSI, objects, methods, procedures, functions.
However, ignoring scripting might be a mistake. In fairly short order, you can learn to script well enough to save yourself time and effort. And the more you script, the more time and effort you'll save.
Scripting a task takes longer than doing the task once manually, even if you're a VBScript pro and know how to tackle the problem. If you're not a pro, writing and debugging the script will take much longer than using the GUI. So why script?
The key application for administrative scripting is automating repetitive tasks. If you have a task that you need to perform more than once or need to perform regularly, scripting that task is a good idea. Scripting such tasks lets you perform them quickly and consistently. Scripting also lets you create tools that the GUI doesn't provide.
If the GUI is time-consuming, then what about using the command-line tools that come with the OS and resource kits?
Use them when you can, but Windows doesn't have command-line equivalents for every task you might want to accomplish, and some tools might not suit your situation. Batch files don't always work well in situations in which the input must change. Besides, scripting and the command-line tools aren't mutually exclusive options. You can write scripts that exploit the command-line tools while minimizing their disadvantages.
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