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Chapter 7: Scripting

Overview

This chapter deals with terminal server scripting. It includes not only the default command shells, but also different extension options. You will learn about the following:

Experienced Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 administrators might find information and techniques here that they already know. Scripting always used to be an important concept for managing large Microsoft Windows NT environments and was thus a well-established mechanism. The technology was improved for Windows 2000 and was well-documented in many help files and publications. For Windows Server 2003, including the .NET Framework and its powerful options, even more scripting options are available. Therefore, this chapter summarizes the most pertinent information, always with a view to terminal server operation.

Important 

Scripts can be a very powerful administration mechanism for terminal servers. However, scripts require a high degree of maintenance when the newest versions need to be installed on each terminal server in a large farm. Therefore, when planning scripts, bear in mind that the scripts might need to be started from a network share, as well.


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