Review

Script components are easy to create, and even easier to use. By using script components, you can leverage your own past work as well as the work of others to create more powerful, professional, and flexible scripts-all much faster than if you had to do everything on your own from scratch. Also, keep in mind that I'll provide links to additional components as I find them (and as you suggest them) on this book's companion Web site, www.adminscripting.com.

COMING UP

If you're interested in protecting your scripts and creating a safer scripting environment, the next two chapters are for you. I'll cover script encoding and scripting security issues, along with suggestions for configuring your environment for safer scripting.