Part 10: Resources for Scripting Network Management

These resources contain additional information and tools related to the scripting tasks described in this white paper.

On This Page

Web Sites
Books
Magazines
Registry
Tools and Downloads

Web Sites

• For hundreds of sample scripts that cover a variety of areas, see the
  TechNet Script Center at
  https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=24771.

• For columns on beginning and intermediate scripting topics, see
  TechNet “Tales from the Script” at
  https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=27640.

• For columns on advanced scripting topics, see the
  MSDN Scripting Clinic at
  https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=24784.

• For documentation and downloads about VBScript and Windows Script Host, see
  MSDN Windows Script at
  https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=298.

• For WMI documentation for developers and administrators, see the
  WMI SDK, which is part of the Platform SDK, on MSDN at
  https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=24766.

Books

• For an introductory book on scripting, see the
  Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide,
  which is by the Microsoft Windows Resource Kit Scripting Team,
  2003, Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press.

  
    Note
  The full text of this book is available online on the TechNet Script Center
  https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=24768

Magazines

• Windows & .NET Magazine at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=30007, which includes information about the Windows Scripting Solutions newsletter.

Registry

For detailed information about many registry entries, see:

• The "Registry" chapter of the Windows 2000 Scripting Guide at
  https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=30001.

• The “Resource Kit Registry Reference for Windows Server 2003” at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=30003.

• The Windows 2000 Server “Technical Reference to the Registry” at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=31141.

The Windows registry contains many network-related settings. By using the System Registry WMI provider, you can directly read and change registry settings in a script by using StdRegProv in the \Root\Default namespace.

Table 48 lists the more important registry subkeys for scripting networking-related settings.

  Caution
Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.

Table 48   Registry Subkeys for Scripting Networking-Related Settings

Tools and Downloads

• Windows Management Instrumentation Tester (Wbemtest.exe), which is included with all versions of Windows that run WMI, for information about a tool that retrieves detailed information about WMI classes, properties, and methods.