You're reading the third part of a tutorial on scripting in Visual Basic - VBScript. The emphasis here is on WSH (Windows Scripting Host) and the "providers" that let you use VBScript to maintain your computer or your network, WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) and ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces). Part One, "Introducing VBScript" is an overview VBScript and WSH using a coding example that manages your Windows desktop. Part 2, "Real World Scripting" builds on the foundation in Part 1 with a scripting example that demonstrates how to dig into WMI scripting.
The script writing method described in Part 2 is great for both writing real world scripts and understanding them because we demonstrated how to turn a basic scripting "template" into the script you need by finding the names of WMI objects using the Microsoft wbemtest utility program.
"But," you may be asking, "If all I have to do is look up these object names and plug them into a program, why isn't there another utility that will do that for me?" The answer (you knew this was coming) is, "There is!" And the name of the utility is, appropriately enough, Scriptomatic. Although you can download it from Microsoft, it's not a "supported" utility in Microsoft's legal definition of support. But it's a tried and true program and is widely used by a lot of scripters. Learning about Scriptomatic is a great next step for you for three great reasons. Let's see what they are on the next page ...
