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VERDICT: Custom logon scripts just got a lot easier to handle. ScriptLogic Enterprise provides a comprehensive central management facility that's extremely easy to install and use.

The Windows logon script is a remarkably powerful tool that has the ability to reduce administrative overheads dramatically. However, move beyond a few simple commands and they can get complicated and difficult to manage. ScriptLogic Enterprise has the answer, as it's designed to automate all your scripting desires and manage them from a single location. Whether you want to deploy drive mappings, search paths and environmental variables to security policies or printer settings, this KiXtart-based scripting tool aims to do it all.

Obviously, ScriptLogic Enterprise must be loaded on a Domain Controller or Member Server, and we used a Windows Server 2003 system running Active Directory. Installation is a cinch, and we had the software up and running in minutes. All domain controllers are automatically detected and the Server Manager component runs as a single service. It requires a domain admin and domain user account to allow it to have local administrative rights and to be able to perform tasks on each workstation without compromising security.

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Logon scripts have been used widely to help maintain a consistent environment for users to automate drive mappings, printer mappings, environment variables, application settings, and even software deployment. Management of these scripts often becomes daunting. If logon scripts are important to your infrastructure, ScriptLogic from ScriptLogic Corp. could help you centrally manage your scripts while offering additional features not provided by traditional BAT or CMD files.

ScriptLogic invokes the scripts it manages after the user has logged in to the operating system and after user profiles and system policies get applied, as long as SLOGIC.bat is set as the login script name for the user. In fact, the SLOGIC.bat script is the heart of the entire process, initiating the inner workings of the application. First, SLOGIC.bat performs a check to ensure that everything is set up correctly, downloads appropriate information to the client if required, and then loads the main executable SLSTART.exe. Next, SLSTART.exe performs some additional verification and hands control over to the SLENGINE.dll, which is responsible for reading and executing administrator-configured settings and scripts. ScriptLogic uses KiXtart, which is an enhanced scripting language and processing engine supporting Windows 95 and later.

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