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Summary: Don't even think about it, BUY THIS BOOK.
Review: If you're relatively new to ADSI control with VBS or VB, you'll find a few annoyances where more practical detail would be helpful. Otherwise, the book is thick with excellent coverage and sample code. The indexes are also well done with a great code library at the back. You'll come back to this one over and over again.
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Summary: Great Buy! Wouldn't script without it.
Review: This book by Thomas Eck provides examples to access and manipulate User Manager, modify or access Share properties on servers, and much more. I was particularly interested in these capabilities under Windows NT 4.0. The book provides direct examples for the specific task you're looking for without all the fluff. I've not found another book that gets right to the point with ADSI under VBS. I'm still searching for a book that provides this kind of material and direct presentation for VBS or WSH. I find this book a valuable weapon in my recent use of scripting and use of ADSI over the past few months.
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Summary: Great Buy! Wouldn't script without it.
Review: This book by Thomas Eck provides examples to access and manipulate User Manager, modify or access Share properties on servers, and much more. I was particularly interested in these capabilities under Windows NT 4.0. The book provides direct examples for the specific task you're looking for without all the fluff. I've not found another book that gets right to the point with ADSI under VBS. I'm still searching for a book that provides this kind of material and direct presentation for VBS or WSH. I find this book a valuable weapon in my recent use of scripting and use of ADSI over the past few months.
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Summary: Unbelievable in what it covers
Review: This book is truly impressive. Over 700 pages of information presented in as clear of a fashion as the ADSI is going to let an author. An incredible amount of informational documentation about most of the ADSI processes, but never running off into useless stories about the authors childhood and such. Fully functional script examples appear on almost every page, with a hundred page appendix showing nothing but cut-and-paste code snippets. Code examples and documentation in the book cover not only creating ADSI programs in Visual Basic, but in VBScript / ASP as well. The one minor issue I found was that there are some references to, and examples for, ADSI 2.5 scripting that is not supported in version 2.5 of the ADSI. These out-of-date examples are very few and far between (I've only run into 3 out of hundreds), and having reviewed Microsoft's on-line documentation, it appears as though those items were going to be supported, and never made it to the released version. The code referenced in the book is easily downloaded from the publishers web site. The book isn't light reading, but the author presents it very well and you don't find yourself bored after a few pages. The time I have put into reading this book and working with the examples, was worth every minute. I find myself with multiple copies of this book so I can reference it from any of my working areas.
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Summary: Unbelievable in what it covers
Review: This book is truly impressive. Over 700 pages of information presented in as clear of a fashion as the ADSI is going to let an author. An incredible amount of informational documentation about most of the ADSI processes, but never running off into useless stories about the authors childhood and such. Fully functional script examples appear on almost every page, with a hundred page appendix showing nothing but cut-and-paste code snippets. Code examples and documentation in the book cover not only creating ADSI programs in Visual Basic, but in VBScript / ASP as well. The one minor issue I found was that there are some references to, and examples for, ADSI 2.5 scripting that is not supported in version 2.5 of the ADSI. These out-of-date examples are very few and far between (I've only run into 3 out of hundreds), and having reviewed Microsoft's on-line documentation, it appears as though those items were going to be supported, and never made it to the released version. The code referenced in the book is easily downloaded from the publishers web site. The book isn't light reading, but the author presents it very well and you don't find yourself bored after a few pages. The time I have put into reading this book and working with the examples, was worth every minute. I find myself with multiple copies of this book so I can reference it from any of my working areas.
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Summary: This book is great for Web Site Administrators
Review: This book will prove invaluable to those who deploy multiple web sites in a redundant environments. If you are deploying web applications over mutliple servers and would like to get away from using the MMC for creating each and every web site then I would recommend getting this book. The book clearly explains how to write automated scripts that can be used to deploy web sites to a single server, or across an enterprise. Creating a web site includes multiple tasks such as FTP accounts, FTP virtual directories, Web site virtual directories and more. This book explains each facet clearly and you can pick and choose the parts that you want to sew together to create an automated system. Now, the only thing I'm wishing for is an ASP book that is written as well so I can create a web interface for the scripts I'm creating.
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Summary: Good book, but can be confusing...
Review: This book works, for most cases. I needed to know how to setup SMTP information. This book only focuses on WWW anf FTP in the IIsSiteManagement section. But the code shows how to GetObject for an SMTP server but not how to use the SMTP server. Same goes with NNPT. Otherwise this is a very good book. The examples are easy to follow and more important can easily be manipulated to your needs. My suggestion for a future revision: include everything, don't leave information out and put hints the code.
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Summary: Zero to Hero
Review: This books is good book for those that are know nothing about ADSI.Suitable for all level users.Have a lot of VB samples but not C++.The explaination about the process is very good and can understand very fast. I strongly recommended for all Scripters to buy this book for your future reference...Enjoy reading and testing... .
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Summary: Good AD Administrator's Task Helper
Review: This is a book designed solely for the system administrator of an Active Directory system. I have used it to import, export, and manipulate AD to integrate it with our existing systems. Many of the tasks I have tried are already in the book, greatly simplifing administrative tasks.This is not a book for system planners or the certification-happy. It is not meant to describe Directory Services systems or how to implement them. After all the 1500+ page technology mega books that have become so prevalent, it is refreshingly on topic and narrowly defined. While it does not include a CD, most of the code samples are so short (15-20 lines0 a decent typist can enter them in a couple minutes.
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Summary: Good AD Administrator's Task Helper
Review: This is a book designed solely for the system administrator of an Active Directory system. I have used it to import, export, and manipulate AD to integrate it with our existing systems. Many of the tasks I have tried are already in the book, greatly simplifing administrative tasks. This is not a book for system planners or the certification-happy. It is not meant to describe Directory Services systems or how to implement them. After all the 1500+ page technology mega books that have become so prevalent, it is refreshingly on topic and narrowly defined. While it does not include a CD, most of the code samples are so short (15-20 lines0 a decent typist can enter them in a couple minutes.
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