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Scripting Windows 2000 (Networking Professional's Library) [Paperback]

Jeffrey Honeyman (Author)

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Honeyman spends far too much paper introducing Windows 2000. In fact, though the book is titled Scripting Windows 2000 he seems reluctant to address the subject. Are DOS batch files a serious scripting tool? No, but we get a whole chapter about it. Then, just as it looks as if he's psyched himself up to deal with real scripts the book segues into a chapter on Reskit, Microsoft's unsupported Windows toolkit.

Chapter 6 deals with the Script Host (which enables those pernicious Outlook viruses to run). This looks promising, but instead of scripting you get more background. Then, at the bottom of page 139 he says, "I'll be skipping over a few of the less frequently used functions in the interest of space." Saving space? Why? There's plenty going spare in the preceding 138 pages.

Finally, we get the introduction to VBScript which should have appeared in Chapter 1, and it isn't going to challenge you. VBScript is a simple and extremely limited scripting language which Honeyman could have introduced with useful examples--but no--you have to plod through patronising language explanations. JScript (Microsoft's JavaScript spoiler) is treated the same way--at the end of which he tells us, "Keeping a brisk pace aren't we?". Well, no.

Fortunately, the section on using scripts for Active Directory Directory Interfaces (ADSI) and the rest of the book is of some use to Windows 2000 sysadmins and others who need to automate changes and troubleshoot erring systems.

Honeyman quickly decides he's exhausted the system scripting possibilities of Windows 2000 and goes on to talk about VBA and VB. While VBA can be justifified, VB isn't a scripting language.

It's hard to see why this book was commissioned, written or printed. One of Microsoft's aims with Windows 2000 was to make scripting more useful, which it did. Many excellent books will be written on it but this isn't one of them. --Steve Patient

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Learn to manage, administer, and troubleshoot Windows 2000 using the Windows Script Host (WSH). This expertly written resource explains how to automate tedious tasks at the command line or from within the Windows GUI. Here, you'll learn to implement the latest versions of VBScript, JScript, ADSI, and WMI and avoid commonly overlooked Windows 2000 pitfalls and scripting errors.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Good Coverage of Both Batch Files and WSH 17 Sep 2000
By Scott Bicknell - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Although not as detailed as "Windows NT Shell Scripting" or "Windows Scripting Secrets" are--where each technology's abilities are concerned--it does goes into great detail in the area of command-line utilities included with Windows 2000 and the "Windows 2000 Resource Kit", showing you how to make use of them in scripts.

It also explains how to set up your system to run scripts directly from the command line without typing a path or file extension, so that your scripts execute exactly like internal shell commands.

It's a very useful reference for shell commands as well as scripting in general.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Unreadable - Buy Another Book / Use the MSDN 26 Sep 2001
By JSCC - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This book lacks depth and the writing style is intensely irritating when one attempts to read it - it's a shock that any editor would allow the book to go to press in the form that he or she did. Here are some of the *many* drippy comments he makes: "...scripting skills are an extra round for your Smith&Wesson, another slug of whisky after a steamy night on the bad sign of town..." "...An ActiveX control can be created in Visual Basic, C++, ElvisSpeak, Visual Hamburger..." With all the other related titles available, and the useful resources in the MSDN, I'd recommend potential buyers do *not* put this one in their shopping basket. The one out of five may seem a bit harsh, but I couldn't get enough useful information out of this book to justify it's purchase, so that's what it ends up with. It may be worth noting that the foreword of this book it written by the author - there is no critique performed by anyone else to be found. Probably for good sales reasons.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This is a must have for every consultant or administrator 11 Aug 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This book is great it will get you on your way to automate your work. Great Windows Script Host book as well! It explains programming in a way that system people will understand.

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