WSH - Simple Script

Introduction to WSH (Windows Scripting Host)

WSH (Windows Script Host) will become an important player in every network administrator's team. The best way to get started is by writing simple scripts. Feel free to amend my examples to suit your domain. In fact, discovering what happens when you change a name here or command there, is the classic way to learn how WSH scripts work.

Topic - Simple WSH Script

The purpose of my sample script is to check the version numbers of WSH, VBScript, WMI, and ADSI.

This is what the output of your script will look like. Note the subtle differences in the names of the 4 executables: WSH, VBScript, WMI and ADSI. Check out the part of the script where the major and minor version numbers are joined (concatenated) to echo the final result.

Simple Script

Here is a sample script to check your version of WSH and WMI.

'Script to display WSH, VBScript, WMI, and ADSI versions
'Script created by Guy Thomas

On Error Resume Next

WScript.Echo "WSH Version: " & WScript.Version

Wscript.Echo "VBScript Version: " & ScriptEngineMajorVersion _
& "." & ScriptEngineMinorVersion

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer _
& "\root\cimv2")
Set colWMISettings = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_WMISetting")
For Each objWMISetting in colWMISettings
Wscript.Echo "WMI Version: " & objWMISetting.BuildVersion
Next

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strAdsiVersion = _
objShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{E92B03AB-B707-11d2-9CBD-0000F87A369E}\Version")
If strAdsiVersion = vbEmpty Then
strAdsiVersion = objShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ADs\Providers\LDAP\")
If strAdsiVersion = vbEmpty Then
strAdsiVersion = "ADSI is not installed."
Else
strAdsiVersion = "2.0"
End If
End If
WScript.Echo "ADSI Version: " & strAdsiVersion

Copy the above script into Notepad

Save with a .vbs extension, e.g. guydemo.vbs.

Double click to execute.

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