Review

The example in this chapter should help you see how a typical administrative Web page is designed, created, tested, and used. Although this was a relatively simple example, it offers powerful functionality. You could expand this example to work in a multiple-domain environment, perhaps offering a drop-down list of available domains, or even a drop-down list of users (although that might take a while to populate in a large domain). The point is that Web pages offer an exciting, easy-to-use alternative interface for junior administrators, can be made as secure as other types of administrative utilities, and are easy to create by using the same techniques that you use for other scripts.

COMING UP

Enough of Web pages-it's time to move on to more advanced general scripting techniques. In the next chapter, I'll introduce you to modular programming, including script packaging and Windows Script Components. In following chapters, you'll see how to protect scripts by using encryption, and you'll learn more about scripting and security.