As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

A facility within Windows that executes VBScript and JScript, which are Microsoft's ActiveX scripting languages. Via the installation of additional scripting engines, Windows Script Host (WSH) can ...

Are you one of those efficient administrators who insists on automating as many tasks as possible in your environment? Yeah, okay, me too. Maybe “lazy” is a better word than “efficient,” but it’s all ...

Whether you are a technology enthusiast or a professional looking to enhance your scripting skills, we have designed this Windows PowerShell scripting tutorial for beginners, especially for you. So, ...

Scripting in Windows has taken different shapes over the years. Many administrators started by creating DOS batch files to help perform simple tasks repetitively and without errors. Today, ...

Virtual Server 2005 R2 is an enterprise level application designed by Microsoft to support the simultaneous running of multiple virtual machines on a high performance, scalable, secure and reliable ...

On March 19, 2003, Microsoft warned of a flaw in the Windows Script Engine, which executes JScript and Visual Basic scripts on a Windows computer. The scripts can be used to add functionality on a Web ...

An Ars forum member by the name of adminfoo recently installed Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to see what all the fuss was about. To his surprise, the security solution quickly labeled him as a ...

Developers must be masochists. How else to explain all the negative reactions to Microsoft’s newfound enthusiasm for HTML5 and JavaScript? First Microsoft said it would integrate the Web standards ...