Microsoft Visual Basic, Scripting Edition and Microsoft Windows Script Host essentials (MOC 2433)

Course overview

This 3-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage Windows networks by using the Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Microsoft Visual Basic, Scripting Edition (VBScript) language. During the course, students will work on real-world scripts that they can use to manage computers running Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. This course also provides an overview of other technologies where students can use script, such as Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

Prerequisites

• Practical experience of using and administering Windows Server 2003
• Practical experience of using and administering the Active Directory directory service
• Practical experience of using and administering system security
• Practical experience of using and administering services
• Practical experience of using systems management information
• Awareness of the potential uses of logon scripts

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Course objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Run and work with scripts, including writing, debugging, and troubleshooting
• Write scripts that access objects and use an object browser
• Use Visual Basic, Scripting Edition to create effective and efficient administrative scripts
• Create error-handling routines and use a debugger to locate and fix logic problems in scripts
• Use Visual Basic, Scripting Edition to interact with ADSI
• Call logon scripts from batch files, perform common tasks using logon scripts, and assign logon scripts to users
• Use scheduling in scripts, send e-mails, manage the registry, and work with drives, folders, and files using scripts
• Write scripts that gather information and automate common management tasks by using WMI

Benefits to you

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Run and work with scripts, including writing, debugging, and troubleshooting
• Write scripts that access objects and use an object browser
• Use Visual Basic, Scripting Edition to create effective and efficient administrative scripts
• Create error-handling routines and use a debugger to locate and fix logic problems in scripts
• Use Visual Basic, Scripting Edition to interact with ADSI
• Call logon scripts from batch files, perform common tasks using logon scripts, and assign logon scripts to users
• Use scheduling in scripts, send e-mails, manage the registry, and work with drives, folders, and files using scripts
• Write scripts that gather information and automate common management tasks by using WMI

Course outline

Module 1: Overview of Windows Scripting Technologies

Lessons

• Windows Scripting Technologies
• Introducing WSH
• Running Scripts
• Working with Scripts Lab: Configuring and Using WSH
• Configuring WSH
• Reviewing the WSH and VBScript Documentation
• Using Windows Script Files
• Using an IDE to Edit Script Files

Module 2: Objects in VBScript and WSH

Lessons

• Object Terminology
• Creating and Manipulating Objects
• Object Models
• Common Object Models Lab: Objects in VBScript and WSH
• Manipulating the Scripting Object Model
• Manipulating the WSH Object Model
• Automating Microsoft Office Word

Module 3: Script Logic

Lessons

• Fundamental VBScript Rules
• Variables, Constants, and Data Types
• Operators
• Conditions and Loops
• Procedures
• Script Layout Lab: Script Logic
• Creating Script Templates
• Using and Creating Code Snippets
• Adding Constants, Variables, Loops, and Conditional Structures to Scripts
• Adding Procedures to Scripts

Module 4: Error Handling and Debugging

Lessons

• Error Handling
• Debugging Lab: Error Handling and Debugging
• Trapping Run-Time Errors
• Debugging VBScript

Module 5: ADSI

Lessons

• Overview of ADSI
• Binding with ADSI
• ADSI Objects
• Searching Active Directory
• Creating New ADSI Objects
• Managing Security, Shares, and Services by Using ADSI Lab A: ADO Search
• Performing Searches by Using ADSI and ADO
• Searching for User and Computer Information by Using ADSI and ADO Lab B: Scripting Administrative Tasks by Using ADSI
• Retrieving Properties by Using ADSI
• Creating OUs, Users, and Groups by Using ADSI

Module 6: Creating Logon Scripts

Lessons

• Verifying the WSH Environment
• Common Logon Script Tasks
• Managing Logon Scripts
• Troubleshooting and Best Practices Lab A: Creating Logon Scripts
• Mapping Drives
• Creating Shortcuts
• Assigning Logon Scripts to a User Lab B: Assigning Logon Scripts
• Configuring Scripts by Using Group Policy

Module 7: Administrative Scripts

Lessons

• Administrative Scripts
• Producing Event Logs and E-Mail Messages
• Managing the Registry
• Controlling Drives, Folders, and Files Lab A: Administrative Scripts
• Passing Arguments to Scripts
• Writing an Event to the Application Event Log Lab B: File and E-mail Scripts
• Documenting Your Computer Drives and Folders
• Sending a Message and Attachment

Module 8: WMI

Lessons

• WMI Overview
• WMI Scripting Basics
• Common Issues in WMI Scripts
• Scripting Common Administrative Tasks by Using WMI Lab: Writing WMI Scripts
• Using the PrimalScript WMI Wizard
• Managing Remote Resources by Using WMI
• Limiting Event Log Data Returned to a Script