Using The WinBatch Scripting Language To Automate Security In An NT4 Environment

A basic scripting knowledge is the Swiss Army knife of any administrator's repertoire. The use of scripting can enable the automation of virtually any repetitive task. For any security administrator working on a network with more that one server, scripting allows automated patch distribution and time to be spent on the important task of interpreting information, rather than generating it! In this document I will endeavor to guide you through a couple of relatively simple scripts in order to demonstrate that getting started with scripting is not as a daunting task as you may have considered. For the scripting veterans, or those Sysadmins' with more ambitions goals, I will also guide you through a couple of more advanced scripts using my favorite scripting language, Wilsonware's WinBatch. As you progress with your own scripting efforts remember if there is a will, there is a way to script it.