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Traditionally, administrators have had to resort to system-specific application programming interfaces (APIs) to perform system maintenance—for example, manipulating network resources, user accounts, or mailboxes. Windows provides Win32 APIs to manipulate such resources. These interfaces are generally difficult to use and not directly accessible to scripting environments such as Windows Script Host (WSH).
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Borge, S. (2004). System Administration. In: Automating Windows Administration. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0731-3_14
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