Creating Logon Scripts with KiXtart

If you've ever wanted to create one logon script for your network or distribute a Registry change to all workstations during client logon, you need to get acquainted with KiXtart. KiXtart is a freeware scripting language that Ruud van Velsen of Microsoft Benelux developed. KiXtart provides powerful scripting capabilities that you can use during client logons or in a standalone script. KiXtart goes far beyond the capabilities of batch files by including common functions that logon scripts typically perform.

For example, rather than calling and using the external Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit utility ifmember.exe, KiXtart includes an InGroup function that makes it easier to test for group membership. Using KiXtart is much easier than calling resource kit utilities from a batch file, because KiXtart provides almost everything you need in one scripting language.

Microsoft includes KiXtart with the resource kit. However, you can download the latest version, KiXtart 3.5, from http://netnet.net/~swilson/kix.html. The examples in this article use KiXtart 3.5. . . .