You do not need a third party product if you are running on MS clients. If you are running Win98 and up with a recent version of IE then you already have everything you need to use this stuff. If not, there are a couple of patches to apply that update the script engines.
Microsoft is doing its best to fill the scripting vacuum for admins who are used to being able to automate stuff. Its good stuff and it was a long time coming. Check it out:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...er/default.asp
Or if you are in a hurry then post your question in BOTH of these forums:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....scripting.wsh
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...pting.vbscript
MS Haters - Dont bother flaming me with the wsh/
vb scripts are open doors for abuse because every decently powerful scripting language is. Just because none of the 12 year olds hacking with windows boxes never bother to learn perl doesnt mean that someone with a working knowledge of perl couldnt own your system.