Chapter 12. Working with the File System

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Manipulating files and folders is one of the most common things an administrative script needs to do. Windows provides the script-friendly FileSystemObject to make it easy for administrative scripts to access the file system on your computer.

You'd be surprised how often you might need to access a computer's file system from within an administrative script. For example, a script that adds new users to the domain might need to read those names from a script, or might need to write out new passwords into a file. A script designed to query TCP/IP addresses from workstation computers will need to write that information somewhere-why not a text file? File system access is almost a prerequisite for any number of useful scripts, even ones that don't have a basic goal of manipulating files or folders. Fortunately, the Windows scripting library includes the FileSystemObject, or FSO, which provides easy access to the drives, files, and folders on your computer.