WSH objects summary

The WSH objects describe the basics of your environment and the way that your scripts running in the scripting host will execute and handle data.

Next month I will focus on a script that illustrates how to use some WSH objects.

Scripting School: Find objects with Windows Scripting Host

  Introduction
  Windows Scripting Host objects
  Wscript.Arguments
  Network resources and user/computer identity
  Running external scripts
  Working with the environment
  Summary

Read Christa's previous columns:
Beginner's guide to scripting
It's time to increase your scripting expertise
Scripting: Connect users to network resources
Scripting School: More on connecting to network resources

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Christa Anderson When Christa Anderson began working with Windows Server operating systems in 1992, she became increasingly interested in finding more efficient and flexible ways of performing routine tasks. Christa has written extensively about administrative scripting and taught technical sessions on the subject at conferences such as Comdex and CeBIT, helping people who had never done any scripting to write their own scripts in half a day. In addition to her interest in scripting Windows management, Christa is an authority on server-based computing and the program manager for Terminal Services licensing in Longhorn. If you have a scripting question for Christa, please e-mail her at scripting@SearchWinSystems.com.