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What
is WinBatch really good for?
We were
wondering this ourselves. Just because we make WinBatch
doesn't mean we know how folks use it. So we asked
our users and recieved a wide variety of answers,
some surprising and some not.
You can
read the letters
from our users
or simply scan the list below:
| System Administration |
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Software distribution
* Scheduling unattended processes
* Security Administration in large sites
* Email Management
* Automate Telnet sessions with special
purpose extender functions
* Control Panel Manipulation
* System configuration checker, inventory,
system metrics
* Registry maintenance utilities
* Automating login scripts
* Workstation backup and restore system
* Novell and MS administration
* Auditing account domains
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| Network Administration |
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* Logon scripts
* Disk space utilization checker
* Manage user accounts
* NetWare SAA gateway and MS SNA Server
automation
* System admin of MS and NDS network
* Server status checker
* System backups
* Printer installation and setup of default
printer
* Start and stop services automatically
* ADSI Administration
* Security Management
* Software upgrade utilities |
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| Data Integration |
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* File Management
* GUI front end for user input
* Laboratory automation and instrument control
via GPIB extender
* Utilities to automate faxing
* CD production automation
* PDF file creation
* Read bar codes in serial mode
* Data parsing and manipulation
* Analyze log files
* ODBC/SQL automation |
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| Desktop Automation |
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* Automate repeated tasks
* Manipulate Windows with API calls
* File management
* Serial and parallel port programming and
manipulation
* Command line utilities
* Automate zipping and unzipping of files
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| Internet Automation |
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* Automated emailer
and email retrieval of messages and attachments
* Control web browsers, get web pages, fill
out web forms
* Automate FTP transfers |
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