The book you need to succeed! Vbscript, jscript

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 Contents
IPCONFIG ........................................................................................................................ 824
NBTSTAT .........................................................................................................................825
NET ACCOUNTS .............................................................................................................826
NET COMPUTER ............................................................................................................. 827
NET CONFIG SERVER ....................................................................................................828
NET CONFIG WORKSTATION .......................................................................................829
NET CONTINUE .............................................................................................................829
NET FILE .........................................................................................................................830
NET GROUP .................................................................................................................... 831
NET LOCALGROUP ........................................................................................................ 831
NET PAUSE ......................................................................................................................832
NET PRINT ......................................................................................................................833
NET SESSION ..................................................................................................................834
NET SHARE .....................................................................................................................834
NET START ...................................................................................................................... 835
NET STATISTICS .............................................................................................................836
NET STOP ........................................................................................................................ 837
NET TIME ........................................................................................................................838
NET USE ..........................................................................................................................839
NET USER ........................................................................................................................840
NET VIEW ....................................................................................................................... 841
NETSTAT .........................................................................................................................842
NSLOOKUP .....................................................................................................................843
PATH ................................................................................................................................844
PING ................................................................................................................................845
RECOVER ........................................................................................................................846
ROUTE .............................................................................................................................847
SCHTASKS .......................................................................................................................848
TIME ................................................................................................................................849
TRACERT .........................................................................................................................849
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owerShell, VBScript, and JScript Bible is a work in progress, just like the Windows operating 
system itself and the body of work that’s grown up around it. It is quite likely that errors 
will make themselves apparent after this book has gone to press and found its way onto 
your desktop. I very much appreciate the efforts of readers who go to the trouble of pointing out 
mistakes in the text so I can fix them in future editions. Even more, I am grateful for readers who 
offer their own hints, tricks, code, and ideas to me for inclusion in future editions of this book. 
I truly hope you find that PowerShell, VBScript and JScript Bible provides everything you need 
to perform essential scripting tasks. You can contact me through e-mail at 
williamstanek@aol 
.com
. You’re always welcome to write me with ideas, suggestions, improvements, or questions. 
If you provide an example that’s used in a future edition of this book, I’ll be especially grateful 
for your help and will credit you in that edition. I also have a Web site, which contains support 
material for this book, among other things. Point your browser to 
www.williamstanek.com/
scripting/
 for corrections, enhancements, news, and additional thoughts. I’ll post the source 
code from this book as well.
Thank you!
William R. Stanek
The best introduction to a book I ever saw was from Machiavelli’s The Discourses, where he says 
something like, “I’m sending you something, and if it doesn’t meet the obligations I owe you, is at 
any rate the best I can send. For in it I have set down all I know from long experience and con-
stant reading…you may perhaps lament my lack of skill should my narratives be thin and also 
errors of judgment if I have made mistakes.” 
The longer the piece that I write, the more likely I am to think of that. The experience I have in 
PowerShell builds on decades of seeing different scenarios and using different tools: and that 
experience has been gained working with people who don’t think of themselves as Programmers. 
Graphical management tools make it easy to find how to do a one-off task, but some repetitive 
tasks aren’t efficient with the GUI. Some information can’t be extracted easily from a graphical 
tool: some tasks just weren’t anticipated by the Programmer who wrote it. UNIX system admin-
istrators have known for a long time that there is an area, which isn’t Programming in the custom-
ary sense, of creating a large beast, with considerations such as user interface design to be taken 
into account. It produces something that a dictionary would define as a program—a sequence of 
instructions to be followed by the computer. A script is a program but not a Program (the capi-
talization is deliberate). Scripts are written mostly by people who are not Programmers, but just 
know the job they need to get done. And, usually a script will involve less time to create than a 
“proper” Program and will pay back the time that went into it very quickly. Want to know which 
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