Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.

WMI is a DCOM application; therefore, when you make calls to WMI in your script—whether they’ll run on a local or remote machine—DCOM comes into play. If your WMI script attempts to execute WMI ...

Way back in January 2003, I told you about a cool tool that the Microsoft Scripting Guys put together called the "Scriptomatic"—a Hypertext Application (HTA) that actually wrote your Windows ...

It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...

You could wrap it up as a software install, or run it with something like a login script or psexec, but you could just change the SID on every machine, instead of ...