Please see my comments to the question and still consider using PowerShell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerShell[
^],
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/scriptcenter/dd742419.aspx[
^].
It is a really fully-fledged scripting tool and the language, with feature-rich and very interesting programming paradigm based on .NET (and exposing nearly all power of .NET to the script developer, among many other things like WMI and WSH, and more). Since its v.3 (of 2012), it also got such a powerful yet simplistic development IDE, that even the debugging became a real pleasure.
Just think about it.
—SA