Getting Started

Detailed articles on how to get started running, modifying, and writing scripts.

Scripting: Your First Steps
Start here. This article will quickly walk you through what a script is and how to make it run.

Sesame Script
This is a regular series of articles aimed at educating the beginning scripter – with a little bit of extra information for the intermediate scripter.

The Windows 2000 Scripting Guide provides hundreds of pages of information on getting started with VBScript, Windows Script Host (WSH), and various other scripting technologies.

Take a guided tour of the Script Center. You’ll learn to work your way through the dark corridors and blind alleys to find what you’re looking for.

The Scripting Guys talk about scripting, WMI, and the Script Center.

On-demand webcasts that will help get you started.

Try your hand at several real-world scripting scenarios.

The Scripting Guys answer customer-submitted questions about scripting.

Browse the Script Repository for ready-made scripts that can help get you started.

If you’d like to get started with Windows PowerShell, this is the best place to start.

Tons of resources on working with Windows PowerShell.

Easy-to-reference cheat sheet for working with VBScript.

All the basics of Windows PowerShell at your fingertips.