Rating: 
Summary: Great Reference
Review: This book is a great reference. Everything is right here, and you can easily modify or combine the scripts to perform the tasks needed to get done.If you've ever bought a "little black book", you'll be comfortable with this book. This book is a concise refence and is intended for intermediate to advance admins/programmers/computer geeks (which explains the winers here who can't write batch files). It dives right into the task at hand, and shows you the results. Definate buy. If you want the baby steps of scripting, this is not the book for you - but if you don't need someone to hold your hand and want to perform awesome scripting tasks, then I recommend this for you. Two thumbs up!
Rating:
Summary: Great Reference
Review: This book is a great reference. Everything is right here, and you can easily modify or combine the scripts to perform the tasks needed to get done. If you've ever bought a "little black book", you'll be comfortable with this book. This book is a concise refence and is intended for intermediate to advance admins/programmers/computer geeks (which explains the winers here who can't write batch files). It dives right into the task at hand, and shows you the results. Definate buy. If you want the baby steps of scripting, this is not the book for you - but if you don't need someone to hold your hand and want to perform awesome scripting tasks, then I recommend this for you. Two thumbs up!
Rating:
Summary: Great Reference
Review: This book is a great reference. Everything is right here, and you can easily modify or combine the scripts to perform the tasks needed to get done. If you've ever bought a "little black book", you'll be comfortable with this book. This book is a concise refence and is intended for intermediate to advance admins/programmers/computer geeks (which explains the winers here who can't write batch files). It dives right into the task at hand, and shows you the results. Definate buy. If you want the baby steps of scripting, this is not the book for you - but if you don't need someone to hold your hand and want to perform awesome scripting tasks, then I recommend this for you. Two thumbs up!
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Summary: A Little about a Lot
Review: This book is a lot like a smorgasbord. You walk up to the counter, and before you are tons of dishes and you get to sample them all. It isn't long, however, before you realize that the items from each style of food are few and simple, and you wish they had a different type of this, or an expanded selection of that. This title has 14 chapters, 353 pages, more scripting languages than you can shake a stick at (most with code samples), plus many scattered references for command line switches on quite a few OS applications (from Defrag to Media Player) - and when all is said and done, you will be exposed to a lot, and wishing for more detail. This book can open many doors and show you many great things. I don't think that anyone at any administrative level can read this book and not discover something new. The only problem is that this book was a monumental undertaking. You are introduced to a concept, given the general gist, and moved right along regardless if you get it or have questions. You are often left wondering how to get it to work on your computer and where to turn to get clarification. When all is said and done, this book is a good buy. Read it with the expectation of being an introduction to many topics, but don't expect it to be your primary reference book, or to master any of the presented material without additional reading.
Rating:
Summary: A Little about a Lot
Review: This book is a lot like a smorgasbord. You walk up to the counter, and before you are tons of dishes and you get to sample them all. It isn't long, however, before you realize that the items from each style of food are few and simple, and you wish they had a different type of this, or an expanded selection of that. This title has 14 chapters, 353 pages, more scripting languages than you can shake a stick at (most with code samples), plus many scattered references for command line switches on quite a few OS applications (from Defrag to Media Player) - and when all is said and done, you will be exposed to a lot, and wishing for more detail. This book can open many doors and show you many great things. I don't think that anyone at any administrative level can read this book and not discover something new. The only problem is that this book was a monumental undertaking. You are introduced to a concept, given the general gist, and moved right along regardless if you get it or have questions. You are often left wondering how to get it to work on your computer and where to turn to get clarification. When all is said and done, this book is a good buy. Read it with the expectation of being an introduction to many topics, but don't expect it to be your primary reference book, or to master any of the presented material without additional reading.
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Summary: Just what I was looking for!!
Review: This was great! Ecellent information on Admin Scripting. You will only understand how good it is after you read it. Highly recommended!!
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