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What scripting language offers the most versatility for writing logon scripts and enterprise administration scripts?
Your choice depends primarily on your environment, what you want the script to do, and what you're comfortable with from a scripting perspective. Scripting languages range from simple command- and shell-based languages, such as Windows NT's command language (batch files) and KornShell, to much more flexible and versatile languages, such as Windows Scripting Host (WSH), Perl, Python, Rexx, Advanced Systems Concepts' XLNT, and FastLane Technologies' FINAL.
WSH or Perl is a good scripting language to learn first, but don't limit yourself to learning only one language. If you know several languages, you can select the tool that best matches the task. For example, Perl isn't a good choice for logon scripts if you don't have a Perl interpreter on the client. Similarly, WSH is notisn't a good tool to use to glue together command-line utilities.
What books or other resources can I use to learn to write batch files, WSH, and Perl scripts? . . .
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I'm writing a popup message using VBScipt (create window object). It works on my local machine, but when I ran this script from the server to client with "rcmd" the popup message did not display on a client. In addition, the rcmd at the server side gets hung. Do you know how can I resolve this?</P>
Henry Nhan November 26, 2003