| Learn to take maximum advantage of WSH to automate routine tasks, create powerful macros how to manage user in remote locations. This book not only teaches how to implement WSH successfully with either JScript or VB Script, it also provides dozens of useful script examples that the reader will be able to apply immediately.
This book is intended to be a standalone, comprehensive guide for the Windows Script
Host technology. It lays a foundation for understanding WSH by discussing the roots of
the technology and by looking at some basic examples. Then it provides a reference for
the objects and languages that are part of WSH. Finally, it moves into very detailed
examples of how you can use WSH for many different tasks. Along the way, we also
discuss the tools that you can use to build WSH scripts, techniques for debugging WSH
scripts, and steps for deploying the scripts that you write.
If you're an experienced Microsoft DOS or Windows user, you've probably cursed batch
files at one time or another. Batch files enable you to automate tasks that you perform
repetitively, but they are pretty weak and relatively unstructured. It can also be difficult to
debug them and get them to work correctly, and they have some strict limitations that
severely limit their capabilities.
The Windows Script Host (WSH) has come to the rescue of Windows users that are
held hostage by crummy batch files. The Windows platform includes a very powerful
scripting solution that enables you to do everything that is possible with batch files—plus
much, much more! They are incredibly useful no matter what your needs are—whether
you're an administrator, a power user, or a software developer.
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