THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA

Scripting webcast week

So Scoble  says that his wife's new job as a MSDN webcast host, they hosted over 4,000 in attendance at the Scripting webcasts.  Wow.  One of my fellow MVPs attended [Steven Teiger [no “h”] and got this email back in response.

Remember that this webcasts are always available ON DEMAND!

Thank you for your interest in our TechNet Webcast
Scripting Files and Folders Makes Me Happy - Level 200.
Here are some related resources that you might find valuable.
            
                                    
Try Your Own Script Writing With a FREE TechNet Virtual Lab!
The best way to learn scripting is by writing scripts. That’s good advice,
but how does it help a newcomer looking to get started in the world of 
system administration scripting? Here is your answer! Try our 
FREE hands-on lab that walks you through the script writing 
process by clicking here. 
 
Script Center | Files and Folders
Lots of sample scripts that extend the themes of the webcast. Click here
 
Review the on-demand version of this webcast and other resources
Available 48 hours after the live webcast.  Click here
 
Microsoft Skills Assessment for Windows Server 2003 
Click here   
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Books for IT Professionals
Click here   
 
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit
Click here   
We hope you find this information useful.
 
Your feedback is important and helps us improve our program.
If you attended the event and have not already completed 
a survey, please click here  . 
 
Thank you again.
 
Sincerely, 
 
Your TechNet Team
 
So anyway... besides Scripting webcasts they also have Security webcasts [my passion]
and TechNet Radio now and Channel 9 videos and then there are Technet Chats  [don't forget the SBS End user
chat on August 5th]
 
So what's scripting about anyway?
 
You are building a script to run a task that might normally in a gui screen take longer.
 
For example changing the local admin password via script is done like this...
 
strComputer = "MyComputer"
Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrator, user")
objUser.SetPassword "testpassword"
objUser.SetInfo
Obviously change the name of the computer from “MyComptuer” to whatever the name is and change “testpassword”
to whatever you like but copy and paste that to notepad, save as a vbs file and voila, you have a script.