Scripting Citrix WMI With Microsof's Scriptomatic

Friday, 15 September 2006 by Michel Roth

Gus Pinto has an article on his website about using the Microsoft Scriptomatic to ease Citrix WMI scripting:

"... there’s a light at the end of the tunnel: Citrix WMI and Scriptomatic.
It takes ZERO skills to create absolutely any scripts using Scriptomatic, and the thing that surprises me the most is that most Citrix administrators don’t even know that Citrix has an entire set of classes based on Microsoft’s WMI architecture. Some facts about Citrix WMI:

• MFCOM has a lot more objects exposed than Citrix WMI.
• Citrix WMI scripts will execute much faster than MFCOM scripts.
• Citrix WMI cannot check if you are a Citrix administrator.
• Citrix WMI script are much quicker to write.

I have created a very small collection of sample scripts I created that shows how simple it is to create your own script using this technology. But before I go any further I want to give some more data, about Scriptomatic if you are not familiar with it. Scriptomatic is an HTA (html application) based utility written by Microsoft’s world famous Scripting Guys.

Read the entire article here.