{"id":231,"date":"2007-11-09T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testblog.sapien.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/09\/vbscript-the-innovation-tool-of-choice\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T04:00:14","slug":"vbscript-the-innovation-tool-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/vbscript-the-innovation-tool-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"VBScript: The Innovation Tool of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the latest issue of Windows IT Pro magazine and the cover story is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsitpro.com\/Articles\/ArticleID\/97204\/97204.html?Ad=1\" target=\"_blank\">IT Pro Innovators<\/a>.&nbsp; These are admins like you who have come up with elegant solutions for critical business needs.&nbsp; What struck me the most as I read the article was how often VBScript was a key part of their solutions. In one case the administrator had a 2300+line VBScript.&nbsp; Now <strong><em>that&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> a script! <\/p>\n<p>Now, even though I imagine some of their solutions could be re-written to leverage PowerShell, VBScript is still a valuable tool and I expect it to remain so for the foreseeable future.&nbsp; Even though PowerShell is the latest and greatest, VBScript should still have a spot in your automation toolbox.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:78650038-dd67-4f31-a1b0-1c2c58e46299\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VBScript\" rel=\"tag\">VBScript<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Scripting\" rel=\"tag\">Scripting<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ITPro\" rel=\"tag\">ITPro<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the latest issue of Windows IT Pro magazine and the cover story is on IT Pro Innovators.&nbsp; These are admins like you who have come up with elegant solutions for critical business needs.&nbsp; What struck me the most as I read the article was how often VBScript was a key part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-vbscript"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}