2433, Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition and Microsoft Windows Script Host Essentials

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

This course is intended for systems administrators who use Windows-based computers and must learn how to develop administrative scripts for their enterprise networks.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Practical experience of using and administering Windows Server 2003.
• Practical experience of using and administering the Active 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.

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.

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: ADO Search
Performing Searches by Using ADSI and ADO
Searching for User and Computer Information by Using ADSI and ADO
Lab: 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: Creating Logon Scripts
Mapping Drives
Creating Shortcuts
Assigning Logon Scripts to a User
Lab: 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: Administrative Scripts
Passing Arguments to Scripts
Writing an Event to the Application Event Log
Lab: 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

Infero Training Ltd is based in the Lace Market in Nottingham. Training courses take place at the following locations including Nottingham, Derby, Loughborough, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Burton-on-Trent, Lincoln, Leicester, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Birmingham, Solihul, Coventry, Nuneaton, Peterborough, Grantham.