What's all the fuss about? Fasttrack Scripting Host is a complete replacement for VBScript/WSH, Bat files, PowerShell, KiXtart and all other Windows scripting tools. Anything you use scripts for today, you can do much easier with Fasttrack Scripting Host. You can create domain logon scripts, install scripts, backup scripts, administrative tasks and anything else you use scripts for with awesome end-user GUI, easier than you could ever imagine! You don't need programming skills and you don't need to deploy anything to the clients. Your scripts will be much more powerful, easier to read and less than 10% in size of what you already have. If you think this is too good to be true, just download it and try it out yourself!

Logon scripts for your domain

You can easily replace your logon bat files and wsh scripts and show the users some awesome graphics instead and you don't have to deploy anything to the clients! Just put our free 50kb FastTrack Logon in your logon directory and point your user's logon script to the exe. FastTrack Logon will automatically distribute the FastTrack engine and all your scripts to all your clients and execute them. It's that simple! And it works for all clients: Windows NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7, all server versions and terminal server and citrix sessions.

What you see below requires just one FastTrack script line, for a fictitious company named Rock America and automatically resolves the users full name from the nearest Domain Controller and you can optionally even use your own company logo:


This single script line as the first line in your logonscript script will produce the result above:

	Splash Welcome to Rock America,[UserFullName]

[UserFullName] is a function that will be replaced by the full name of the current user. So while the user sees only the splash screen, you can do the actual work. Display a nice welcome screen, while you connect shares and printers based on Active Directory groups or physical location (IP tables), synchronize corporate files to the users profile, backup users files, set user hive registry settings based on installed applications, etc etc...and with unbelievable speed.

Just to make a point of how easy FastTrack scripting is, consider this single FastTrack logon script line:

	IF UserIsMemberOf SalesStaff Then ConnectShare J:,\\AcmeServer\SalesShare

This one line tests if the user logging on, is member of the domain group SalesStaff and connects a share if he is. Imagine how many script lines you would have to write with VBScript using LDAP lookups to your Active Directory and MapNetworkDrive from the WScript.Network object to do this. The same goes for everything else you would put in a logon script, your FastTrack logon scripts will be extremely short and much more powerful than what you could do with VBScript or PowerShell. Take a look in the logonscript guide for more details of how to create unbelievable logon scripts! The guide will also inspire you to do much much more with your logon script than you did before.

Script editing

Fasttrack Scripting Host comes with an amazing script editor. It is completely customizable with Visual Studio-like draggable panels, syntax highlighting and code completion. Writing scripts is extremely easy and a Context Helper senses what you are doing and explains what is under the cursor. Check out our Getting Started Guide for more information.

Connectivity scripts - offline logon scripts

Your domain enables you to execute scripts when computers are on the company LAN. But for portable computers, this is actually not enough, if you think about it. You need to control portable computers when they are not on the company LAN too. As a supplement to logon scripts, we offer you our completely free SmartDock connectivity tool. When SmartDock is started, it detects when the computer changes an IP address and a script is then executed without user intervention. This means that when the computer for instance is booted, resumes from standby, connects to VPN or a wireless network or any other scenario where the computer changes IP settings, it trigs a script execution in the user's context. You can then for instance set or remove proxy settings and connect company shares in case the computer is just resumed from standby on the company LAN. Especially if you have a proxy server, this free tool is an absolute must instead of relying on the quirky IE autodetection. Check out the SmartDock section for more details.

Backup and replication

You can use our extremely fast data synchronizing command "SyncDir" to backup or replicate data. For instance you could do an automatic backup of the users' documents once a day with a single line in your logonscript:

	IF UserOnceADay Then SyncDir [UserDocumentsDir],[UserHomeDir]\DocumentBackup

This would automatically resolve the root of the users documents folder and automatically resolve the users network share and synchronize changes. Or you could just use if for a personal backup. The result in either case would be this:

Installations

You can very easily script installations with FastTrack commands and it enables you to query installation status of an application anywhere you want, for instance in the logon script, where you could set per-user settings or manipulate machine settings based on installed applications. While you run the installation in the background, you could put one script line in the top to display a nice splash screen while installing:


You may already have a management system like Microsoft Systems Management System (SMS) or Tivoli. In that case you can use it to distribute FastTrack installation packages (a FastTrack script and your binaries), but if this is all you use your expensive management system for or you simply don't have one, there is another approach. Take a look in the Installations section for details on how to distribute software with or without a Management System with just a few script lines. You will find examples of scripts there, for instance a template of just 9 scripts lines that installs and uninstalls an MSI package and checks if was successful or not.

Administrative tasks

You can easily perform administrative tasks with very simple scripts like replicating data between servers or create users. You could for instance create a menu with one single script line like the one below with out of the box graphics and the few script lines to execute choices:

Operating systems

Fasttrack Scripting Host is supported on all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows: Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server. Fasttrack Scripting Host uses only Microsoft approved methods of execution, which means that it will work on future versions of Windows too, unlike many homebrew WSH constructions.

Free for personal use!

Fasttrack Scripting Host is free for personal use! If you need an awesome tool for personal backups, connection of share at home, etc, it is completely free of charge.

For business use, you must purchase a license priced from only $399 which also includes 3 years of free upgrades. You can download a fully functional trial version to construct your scripts before you decide if you wish to purchase a license. Remember to download the free Fasttrack Logon too, if you want to create domain logon scripts.

Awards

Don't take our word for it! Fasttrack Scripting Host is continuously being recognized as a top pick around the world. Current we have 26 awards. Click here for a full list, below some of the most recent awards.