Administering an ISP Installation

Windows Script Host

WSH is a language-independent scripting environment for 32-bit Windows platforms. Microsoft offers both Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript) and JScript® scripting engines with WSH, while third-party companies supply ActiveX scripting engines for other languages, such as Perl.

WSH can automate administrative tasks on a server. For example, an administrator can write a program in VBScript that will create a new virtual directory. With WSH, the script file can then be run from the command line, in order to create a new virtual directory on the Web site. In addition, an administrator can write a single script that will target multiple Web sites or multiple physical servers. For more information, see the Windows Script Host material in the Windows documentation.