Microsoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide will equip you with the tools to automate setup, deployment, and management of Microsoft Windows 2003 networks via the various scripting interfaces contained with the product. In addition, it will provide you with an understanding of a select number of VBScripts adaptable to your own unique environments. This will lead you into an awareness of the basics of programming through modeling of fundamental techniques.

The approach I take to teaching you how to use VBScript to automate your Windows 2003 servers is similar to the approach used in some of the executive foreign language schools. You'll learn by using the language. In addition, concepts are presented not in a dry academic fashion but in a dynamic real-life manner. When a concept is needed to accomplish something, it is presented. If a topic is not useful for automating network management, I don't bring it forward.

This is a practical application-oriented book, so the coverage of VBScript, Windows Scripting Host, Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI), and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is not exceedingly deep. This is not a reference book; it is a tutorial, a guide, a springboard for ideas perhaps, but not an encyclopedia.