Scripting School: Beginner's Guide to Scripting

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Scripting School: Beginner’s Guide to Scripting

Christa Anderson, a noted authority on scripting, will explain basic scripting concepts and then move on to teach you how to use VBScript to perform common tasks. You’ll learn to script in small steps and find out what you can accomplish with a script that you can’t accomplish from the graphical interface.

Read all of Christa's scripting columns here:
April 2005: Beginner's guide to scripting
May 2005: It's time to increase your scripting expertise
June 2005: Connect users to network resources
July 2005: More on connecting to network resources
August 2005: Find objects with Windows Scripting Host
September 2005: Windows Script Host arguments
October 2005: Scripting School: Turning the environment with WshShell
November 2005: Scripting School: Connect scripts to remote computers
December 2005: Scripting School: Writing output to a text file

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