Between every IT administrator and the end users they support lie miles and miles of code. Most IT administrators are familiar, to some degree, with shell scripting. For the small set of ...

As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

Steve Hammer, president at search marketing firm RankHammer, and Frederick Vallaeys, co-founder of AdWords tool company Optmyz, again provided insights from their work in the trenches with scripts.

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...