Scripting Tips for Windows Administrators (and co…….ppt

Scripting Tips for Windows Administrators (and commands you should know about) John Kelbley Product Technology Specialist Microsoft Corporation Who am I? John Kelbley Infrastructure Technology Specialist Microsoft – New England Topics Scripting Technology Overview Cool Commands You Need to Know About Especially WMIC Scripting vs Command line (WMIC) Scripting Resources I Use and Like Virtual Server 2005 and Scripting (as time permits) What’s all this talk about scripting? What’s “Scripting” Writing non-compiled, easy to edit code to automate tasks Stringing commands together in a .bat file is scripting! Why does scripting get a bad rap? Lots of books and languages for different applications that are USELESS if you don’t need them Administrators don’t need VBS / Jscript for web development books There’s NO specific book on what YOU do at YOUR job that needs to be automated via scripts! Key Scripting Terms (for Windows) WSH – Windows Script Host WScript vs CScript (demo) ADSI – Active Directory Service Interface WMI – Windows Management Instrumentation Key Scripting Solutions (for Windows) Batch files (purist would argue) VBScript / VBS / Visual Basic Script Engine built into WSH, similar syntax to Visual Basic Runs interpreted Jscript Engine built into WSH, similar syntax to Java (and C) Runs interpreted, VS .Net has compiler Perl Supported by WSH (not built in) Similar syntax to C, has downloadable “header” files Compiles on first execution (or before) Ports easily to other platforms (UNIX) You Want more Script Support… Check out SFU (Services for UNIX 3.5) SFU is FREE!!!! Comes PACKED full of cool UNIX stuff Interix subsystem, NFS, NIS, awk, grep, sed, tr, cut, tar…, Password Sync with UNIX! Active State Perl included in package You could download it for free from ActiveState already If you are serious about Perl, buy upgrade from ActiveState, it is worth it! KornShell C Shell Changing gears for a few minutes…Here’s some way cool commands you need