WSH and ADSI Administrative Scripting (Sams Other)

WSH and ADSI Administrative Scripting......Page 2
Copyright © 2002 by Sams Publishing......Page 3
Overview......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
About the Author......Page 14
Tell Us What You Think!......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Scripting......Page 20
What Is Scripting?......Page 21
Scripting Languages in Depth......Page 25
Various Types of Script Files......Page 30
Script Host Environments......Page 36
What Is Windows Script Host?......Page 37
Summary......Page 39
CHAPTER 2 What’s New in WSH 5.6?......Page 40
Grouping Script Switches......Page 41
Script Self-Documenting......Page 44
Sharing the Environment......Page 45
Accessing Standard Streams Programmatically......Page 46
Spawned Processes in WSH 5.6......Page 50
Accessing Command-Line named Arguments......Page 53
WshNamed Objects......Page 54
Remote Scripting......Page 56
WshRemote Object......Page 57
Accessing Active Directory Information with the CurrentDirectory Property......Page 62
Summary......Page 63
CHAPTER 3 Creating Scripts......Page 66
Tools for Creating Scripts......Page 67
Creating Reusable Scripts......Page 70
Linking Scripts......Page 74
The WSH Object Model......Page 77
Summary......Page 94
CHAPTER 4 How to Use Your Scripts......Page 96
.wsf File Support......Page 97
Drag-and-Drop Support in Files......Page 105
Set Script Properties......Page 110
Running Script Files from CScript.exe and WScript.exe......Page 113
Summary......Page 116
CHAPTER 5 Securing Your Scripts......Page 118
Accessing Registries with Malicious Code......Page 119
Scripting with the CryptoAPI Tools......Page 120
Securing Scripts with Signing......Page 122
Using Certificates to Sign Scripts......Page 127
Establishing Trusts Within Scripts......Page 132
Summary......Page 135
CHAPTER 6 Introduction to ADSI......Page 136
The Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI)......Page 138
Summary......Page 144
CHAPTER 7 ADSI Architecture......Page 146
ADSI Objects......Page 147
Namespaces......Page 152
ADSI Providers......Page 153
Programming Language Support......Page 155
Summary......Page 157
CHAPTER 8 Using ADSI......Page 158
Binding to ADSI Objects......Page 159
Summary......Page 175
CHAPTER 9 Accessing Data with ADSI......Page 178
Working with ADSI Objects and Their Properties......Page 180
Property Cache......Page 181
Single and Multiple Value Attributes......Page 182
IADs and IDirectoryObject Interface......Page 183
Accessing Attributes......Page 185
Modifying Attributes......Page 194
Accessing the Property Cache Directly with the IADsProperty Interfaces......Page 198
ADSI Attribute Syntax......Page 199
Collections and Groups......Page 204
Summary......Page 206
CHAPTER 10 Enumerating ADSI Objects......Page 208
Enumeration......Page 209
Summary......Page 215
CHAPTER 11 Searching Active Directory......Page 216
Query Scope......Page 217
Query Depth......Page 218
Working with Large Resultsets......Page 219
Searches......Page 223
Dialects Used for Searching Active Directory There are two dialects used for searching AD. They are SQL, which stands for Structured......Page 226
Processing Resultsets......Page 229
Summary......Page 237
CHAPTER 12 ADSI Security......Page 238
Authentication......Page 239
Access Control......Page 241
Creating a Security Descriptor Object......Page 242
Enumerating ACLs on an ADSI Object......Page 243
Summary......Page 245
CHAPTER 13 WSH and the .NET Framework......Page 246
The .NET Common Language Runtime......Page 247
Languages in .NET......Page 248
Summary......Page 254
APPENDIX A WSH Reference......Page 256
Objects......Page 257
Properties......Page 267
Methods......Page 285
Events......Page 310
XML Elements......Page 311
APPENDIX B ADSI Reference......Page 318
Data Types......Page 319
Constants......Page 320
ADSI Error Codes......Page 321
INDEX......Page 328