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Getting Started

Creating the Initial File

Testing

Implementation

Basic Techniques

Mapping Network Drives

Connecting Printers

Section Labels

More Advanced
Techniques

Domain Group Membership For Drive and Printer Mapping 

Recording Script Results

Location Detection

Machine Identification

Operating System Detection

Limiting the Number of Logins

Registry Changes

Redirection of Internet Explorer Favourites

Checking for Existence
of a File or Directory

If you are a network administrator then a login script can be a very useful tool. You will have provided your users with various network drives, printers and other resources and a script can ensure that they connect to them in a controlled manner. There will be consistency across all users and machines. If you need to change those letter and locations, you can do so in one location, meaning that you don't have to visit every machine. 

Login scripts can be also be used on your local machine. This can be useful if you have multiple users on the machine and want them all to connect to the same resources. Otherwise it is a useful tool during testing but of little practical use once the script is complete.

Writing that first login script can be daunting if you haven't done it before. What this section will do is show you how to create a simple batch file login script. You can combine different elements to create quite sophisticated script that configure many parts of your environment for every user. Microsoft have even provided tools in the resource kit to allow you to complete different functions in the login script.

Conventions

When you are looking at the examples and text in this section, information you should be entering in to your login script or commands you should choose from menus will be found in italics, for ease of reference.

However when you copy script text in to your text editor, the formatting will not follow. Login scripts are basic text files.

Getting Started

• Creating the Initial File
• Testing
• Implementation

Basic Techniques

• Mapping Network Drives
• Connecting Printers
• Section Labels

More Advanced Techniques

• Using Windows Domain Group Membership to Control Drive Letters and Printers
• Recording Script Results
• Location Detection
• Machine Identification
• Operating System Detection
• Limiting the Number of Logins
• Registry Changes
• Redirection of Internet Explorer Favourites
• Checking for Existence of a File or Directory

More Information

There are lots of references on the Internet for login scripts and the commands that you can use in them. You can use almost any command line tools that are available in the operating system.

Microsoft Technet: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/ 

About.com: http://windows.about.com/cs/batchscriptingtips/

Script Database: http://www.myitforum.com/articles/11/view.asp?id=6298

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