Automate mundane network admin tasks with four member-submitted scripts

Overview TechRepublic asked members to submit their favorite network administration scripts and this is one of the responses. You can use these scripts to automatically choose background Windows wallpaper, compare local file structure with a source location and download changed or new items, remove printer references, and remove network drive mappings.

One of the favorite methods that administrators use to automate repetitive tasks and push out changes across a network is with scripting. As a result, administrators often build up their own library of scripts to manipulate various functions in a Windows network. In the Download Weekly Newsletter, TechRepublic asked members to submit their favorite Network Administration scripts. This download includes scripts submitted by TechRepublic member Lee Mason that will automatically choose background Windows wallpaper, compare local file structure with a source location and download changed or new items, remove printer references, and remove network drive mappings.

Let us pay you for your original scripts so that we can publish them as downloads on TechRepublic and allow your fellow IT professionals to benefit from your scripting savvy. We only ask that you put in the appropriate comments to your scripts so that it's easy to tell what the script is doing and which variables might need to be customized. Send us your original Windows admin scripts and we'll pay you $100 for each one that we publish as a TechRepublic download.

What do you think of these admin scripts? Are you having trouble getting them to work? Check out the discussion thread for additional information and instruction.

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