Learning Windows for virtualization reasons: What’s a scripting language you can count on?
Though I’m a Linux a system administrator, I find myself interacting with Windows more often lately, usually because it touches the virtualization workflow in some environments I work with. Lately I’ve been working on a bunch of Windows XP Professional hosts…. because they all run VMware Workstation 6.5, with Linux guests.
There are a couple of things about the installation I’m looking to script, so I’ve had to look up what: What’s a scripting language available on all Windows XP systems?
Answer: VBScript and Jscript (Found out via this helpful Stackoverflow.com post where somebody already asked this, so I didn’t have to.)
Windows does have another environment, Powershell, which looks great and quite Linux-like. It can be installed on XP, but does not come stock. It should come stock in Windows 7.