Best Practices

• If a command such as Wscript.echo is used several times in a script, be sure to run the script using Cscript.

• Use Active Directory Users and Computers and ADSI Edit to discover the directory names of object attributes and to find out what possible attributes an object can contain.

• Populate attributes using variables to save time when writing scripts that will create several user accounts.

• Use a script to create users and also mail-enable those users.

• Use Ldifde.exe and Csvde.exe for creating directory objects using clean formatted data presented in LDIF or CSV format.

• Use WMI to access and manipulate server files and file security.