Re: Survey: what do you use to create Login scripts

Thanks for the feedback.


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"JohnB" <jbrigan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have been, in various forms and titles, working in the network
administration field for some 20 years now. But with my previous
employer, I did much less of that and, more on the project management side
of things. Well now after having been "right-sized" I am looking at
getting into network admin again.

In the past I always used traditional batch files for login scripts. And
now I'm wondering if this is still the preferred method. I have done
some VB scripting in the past, but always thought you ended up with many
more lines of code with that method. I know there are some other options
our there like kixtart, but I have only "played" with those, never used
them in production.

What do you use for your login scripts, and why did you choose that
option?


I use batch files each and every time. Under Win2000/XP they have
become sufficiently versatile to perform 95% of all jobs. If I have a
specific requirement that is beyond the capabilities of a batch file then
I invoke a tailor-made VB script from within the batch file.

I find VB scripts both unnecessary and too verbose for everyday
tasks. As an example: To keep a local folder (including subfolders)
up-to-date requires lots of VB script lines. With robocopy or xcopy
I can do the job in a single line of code.



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