Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book (Little Black Books (Paraglyph Press))

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Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)

with Microsoft Windows, 202-203

process, 203

providers, 203-205

silent installation, scripting, 42

understanding, 202-205

ADDUSERS utility, managing groups with, 212

Administrative shares

attaching to, 167-168

common, 167

defining, 167

disconnecting mapped, 169

performing tasks through, 168

removing, 265-266

Administrative Tools, locking down, 266-267

ADSI. See Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI).

Alerts

sending to multiple users/computers with KiXtart, 299-300

sending to multiple users/computers with shell scripting, 298-299

sending to multiple users/computers with Windows Script Host, 301-302

sending to single user /computer with KiXtart, 299

sending to single user/computer with shell scripting, 297-298

sending to single user/computer with Windows Script Host, 300-301

sending with KiXtart, 299-300

sending with shell scripting, 297-299

sending with Windows Script Host, 300-307

API, 8

Application logs, understanding, 281-282

Application objects

accessing, 91

closing, 92

visibility of, 92

Application Programming Interface (API), defining, 8

Applications

automating from command line, 93-99

automating objects through, 100-112

automating send-keys through, 112-115

ARCserve 2000, controlling from command line, 354-355

At command

evolution of, 344-345

scheduling from command line, 356

Attributes, setting all files within folders, 86-87

Audio files

in play list, playing, 373-374

playing using RealPlayer, 372

playing using Windows Script Host controls, 372-373

playing with KiXtart, 368

Auto- sized partitions, creating, 23

AutoIt

ActiveX Control, scripting, 37

[ADLIB] section, 36-37

versus KiXtart, 36-37

script files, converting standalone executables to, 37

understanding, 35-37

Web site, 35

versus Windows Script Host, 36-37

Automation

evolution of, 90

identifiers, 91-92