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Summary: This is a great book - ignore the crybabies
Review: The folks moaning about the lack of downloadable source code or login scripts don't need this book - they need a babysitter to hold their hand while they learn to write WSH scripts. If you enjoy the clear writing of an experienced programmer and don't mind thinking for yourself, this book will be a revelation, especially if your scripting experience has been limited to command scripts. Hill effortlessly takes you into the innards of WSH, with a clear, pedestrian style that reflects his complete understanding of his topic. The lack of JScript examples may be the books biggest flaw, but once you understand the concepts, applying them to another scripting language is mostly a matter of studying that language and the (now) abundant online documentation on the Microsoft web site. And here's a little gift for the crybabies (and everyone else): the code can be found on the New Riders (newriders.com) web site by going to their download section. Find this and the errata by searching on "Windows Script Host." Happy scripting.
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Summary: Good for casual sysadmin only
Review: There's not enough meat here for real programming. It is geared for sysadmin people with some canned scripts that would surely come in handy, but for programmers this is not enough. For example, there is no full listing of the function calls for the objects - you must go to the MS site and search for it there.
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Summary: Excellent tutorial for WSH and VBScript
Review: This book is an excellent reference and tutorial on WSH and VBScript. It seems to be somewhat geared toward system administrators, but any Windows user seeking to utilize WSH would benefit from this book. I was pleased with the thorough coverage of VBScript. Since I could find no other book on the subject, this was a gold mine to me. Only a couple of things I would like to see different: (1) The author explicitly recommends using Cscript.exe instead of Wscript.exe (I would like to see more examples geared towards Wscript.exe), and (2) I would like to see coverage of other scripting languages in addition to VBScript (e.g. JScript). For the topics this book does cover (WSH and VBScript) you won't find a more thorough book.
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Summary: Good Book for Admins; Bad Book for General Purpose Scripting
Review: This book is not as general as the title implies. Over half of the book is dedicated to covering vbscript, with almost no mention of the other activex scripting languages available. All of the examples are geared towards administration tasks; if that's all you need, this book is ok. If you need a programming reference that covers the capabilities of the WSH, this book is a poor choice (my personal recommendation would be the WSH programmer's reference by Dino Esposito).
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Summary: Very limited in focus. Incomplete in some areas.
Review: This book was ok but was very limited in scope. The IIS section is incomplete and is missing scripting for a few technologies. IMO, this book seems to focus on scriptable methods of common GUI admin tasks. I was expecting more coverage of how to script admin tasks that are not available in the Operating System. A book with a reference section of common or admin related commands (or reference info like in his basic shell scripting book execellent reference by the way!) would needs to be added. Sometimes admins need to create custom solutions not available in the Operating System and this subject would be an excellent addition to this book. This Book is a good reference to see how the flow of given code examples are written but falls way short in the overall administration field. I'd see if there was another book on the market.
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Summary: Very limited in focus. Incomplete in some areas.
Review: This book was ok but was very limited in scope. The IIS section is incomplete and is missing scripting for a few technologies. IMO, this book seems to focus on scriptable methods of common GUI admin tasks. I was expecting more coverage of how to script admin tasks that are not available in the Operating System. A book with a reference section of common or admin related commands (or reference info like in his basic shell scripting book execellent reference by the way!) would needs to be added. Sometimes admins need to create custom solutions not available in the Operating System and this subject would be an excellent addition to this book. This Book is a good reference to see how the flow of given code examples are written but falls way short in the overall administration field. I'd see if there was another book on the market.
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Summary: Another excellent Tim Hill book
Review: Tim Hill again proves himself to be a through writer and excellent teacher on WSH. This book focuses EXCLUSIVELY on VBScript with no examples of JScript (both languages native to WSH). However, if you build, deploy, manage, maintain, query, or generally support Windows platforms, you should have a copy of this book. It serves as an excellent VBScript/WSH primer covering programming concepts and built-in functions in detail. It them moves on to cover objects and classes from introductory to advanced topics. His examples are clear and to the point. Tim's writing style is VERY easy to undertand and VERY thorough. This book is a MUST HAVE for admins wanting to go well beyond batch files for logon scripts and administration. Combined with a good WMI book, you've got a powerful aresenal. BTW, the downloads from the publisher were easily available...
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Summary: Another excellent Tim Hill book
Review: Tim Hill again proves himself to be a through writer and excellent teacher on WSH. This book focuses EXCLUSIVELY on VBScript with no examples of JScript (both languages native to WSH). However, if you build, deploy, manage, maintain, query, or generally support Windows platforms, you should have a copy of this book. It serves as an excellent VBScript/WSH primer covering programming concepts and built-in functions in detail. It them moves on to cover objects and classes from introductory to advanced topics. His examples are clear and to the point. Tim's writing style is VERY easy to undertand and VERY thorough. This book is a MUST HAVE for admins wanting to go well beyond batch files for logon scripts and administration. Combined with a good WMI book, you've got a powerful aresenal. BTW, the downloads from the publisher were easily available...
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