Scripting and Automation

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For VBScript, check out the Scripting Centre. They write regular columns and take a humourous slant on things. They cover all sorts of topics, and talk you through all the code, which can help immensely.

Its how I learned VBSCript (well, that and I had help from a couple of mentors in my old work). I did also pick up a Wrox vbscript book.

 

Thanks for that im a bit rusty on scripting

 

You should learn how to defend against flaming pitchforks. Comes in handy, so I've heard.

 

VBScript is where I started in programming, little over a year or so ago. My particular specialty is in AD programming with VBScript, so if you need any help, just ask. Cant promise ill know it all, but ill try my best.

 

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/552ed70a-208d-48c4-8da8-2e27b530eac71033.mspx?mfr=true

Administration and scripting tools

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/552ed70a-208d-48c4-8da8-2e27b530eac71033.mspx?mfr=true

hope one of these help ya hun.

 

I would recommend learning a cross-platform language. That way if you ever branch out you can take that same skill right with you. Perl and Python are widely used languages, and many advertisements I see like to see skills in one of those two languages(more Perl than Python). Ruby is also a very hot scripting language right now. It's the BIG thing in web development. I've seen it in use, and it's remarkably easy to pick up on the syntax (very similar in readability to Python).

You don't hear a lot about Python, but it is used a lot. Google makes extensive use of it and so do organizations such as NASA and Industrial Light and Magic, who do a large percentage of the special effects you see on TV and in the Movies. Python's syntax is very readable, and the language itself is pretty flexible, and fairly easy to learn. The hardest part about Python is just because it's growing so much. New capabilities are being added all the time.

I've been writing a few scripts in Python for work, and have come up with a couple of scripts that made my job a lot easier, and one that has allowed me automate going through the email server queue and looking at the header, log, and message body for each message to see why it was "frozen"(undeliverable) and allowing me to either "thaw" it, or delete it, based on what I find.

I find writing that kind of stuff pretty rewarding. I'm far from a guru at it yet, but I'm learning, and enjoying it immensely.

 

Since you are a trainee author as well as a trainee script-writer, I think you might enjoy this site. There is really nothing quite like it....