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Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows Administrators (Pro Other)
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by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks
Sales Rank: 30680
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List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press February 22, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735622442
ISBN-13: 978-0735622449
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.2 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
Product Description
Take ultimate control of system administration by learning advanced scripting techniques from two experts. Experienced Windows script-writers can move beyond the basics with hands-on instruction, advanced techniques, and best practices for using Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) as an enterprise-level administrative tool. You also get ready-to-use scripts and an eBook on CD. Discover how to: Build your own scripting components and libraries Use digital signatures and certificates to create security-enhanced scripts Retrieve information from Active Directory with advanced ADSI techniques Manage your Windows environment with advanced Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) techniques Use scripts to back up, copy, restore, and set permissions for your Group Policy environment Write scripts to access databases with ADO Build hypertext applications for script graphical interfaces Develop scripts that work with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Operations Manager Exploit the scripting updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 CD features: More than 100 sample scripts to adapt for your own work Fully searchable eBook
Publisher Description
Key Book Benefits: - Covers the advanced ADSI and WMI scripting topics that other books leave out, including enterprise scripting techniques, security, scripting Group Policy, and building hypertext applications for script graphical interfaces - Builds scripting skills beyond Windows operating systems by teaching scripting techniques and best practices for Exchange Server, SQL Server, Microsoft Operations Manager, and Virtual Server - Features powerful, ready-to-run, enterprise-level scripts in each chapter - Includes a companion CD-ROM with sample scripts and utilities
Customer Reviews & Comments
It never ceases to amaze me how many scripting books, including this one, start off telling you that you should already have intermediate to advanced scripting skills before you read, yet spend an initial chapter explaining what an array or an object is. It leaves me feeling that their definition of what "advanced" is will differ greatly from mine. I am also always a little dismayed when throughout, a book plugs a costly script development studio and spends time pointing out why your chosen script editor isn't good enough for your projects. That said, Advanced VBScript delivers what it promises. It is written for intermediate to advanced scripters and has the primary goal of introducing scripting formats, utilities, objects and processes that might otherwise be overlooked. The beginning introduces you to the WSF XML format for scripts, why you would want to use it, and how to convert your existing scripts to this format. From there you are shown how to utilize scripts as COM objects, how to add an interface to your scripts via HTML and HTA applications, performing remote scripting, and expand your scripts ability using database, ADSI, WMI components. The last section focuses on working with Exchange 2003, MOM 2005 and Virtual Server 2005. At around 500 pages, the book is certainly not an exhaustive reference for each component examined. You are provided a good introduction and general instructions to the topic, given many recipe scripts for immediate inclusion in your environment, and then provided additional detail on where to go to focus on the topic. The book is formatted to not only be a start to finish textbook, but also serve as an excellent reference guide for the introduced components later on. Although you may find similar scripting information scattered about other VBScript books, here you have a great deal of well presented topics that cover a broad spectrum of concepts. Inclusion of this title to your reference library will provide you the information you need while keeping your bookshelf compact.
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Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows Administrators (Pro Other)
List Price: $49.99
Available from Amazon
Price: $31.49
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