Customer Reviews

WMI Essentials for Automating Windows Management

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Overall, the book is okay. The content is definitely beginner to intermediate as advertised but reasonably thorough. My main problems with this book relate to the errors and really lousy formatting of the example code. Sams should have followed the usual convention of using a monospaced font for code examples because it would have made the book infinitely easier to read. ... The most interesting code examples are just too long to waste time manually typing. Very disappointing...

This book is very timely, extremely accurate, and in complete touch with the latest management technologies offered on Windows computers. Marcin does a great job relating each topic and the scripts run flawlessly. BIG TIP (but thoroughly logical): Make sure you have the latest versions of both WMI and Windows Script Host/VB Script installed on your computer when playing with the scripts. ...

This book has become one of my most used resources. If you are looking for a way to use WMI and WBEM to inexpensively manage a Windows environment, this is it.

This book will guide you through the steps to understand and maximize the capabilities of WMI, which IS FREE.

It's really a minimal cost when you consider that it opens up an understanding that could possibly alleviate the need for one or two of your third party management products (which are costing you a fortune).

Anyway, I really enjoyed it. I have been waiting for some more information than is offered on the MSFT site, and this book gave me what I needed, and more...

If you are a system administrator, like I am, you will appreciate sample VBScript-based scripts presented in this book. This is what has been missing from any Microsoft WMI documentation (including their Software Development Kit). And finally the publisher (SAMS) decided to post the source code on their web site.

This is a good book to get you started on understanding WMI. However, the book has many errors in it's code. It can be frustrating if your new to scripting and WMI. Unfortunatley, it's the only book in the market right now so if your looking to learn WMI, go for it.

I just came from "samspublishing.com" and noticed so many complaints about their being no "code samples." Well you all can just pop over to samspublishing.com and then use "Marcin Policht" in the search box to find this book. Once you are at this book's page you can see a link for "Related Materials" and it is there that you will find a small download "code.zip" to apease those who need the code samples.

I put a 5 star rating here only to offset those that said they would give it a 5 if it had the coding samples. I have not read this book and was concerned about the negative remarks. I don't need the code samples, but found it difficult to not mention that they are indeed available for download.

This book has all of the information you will need to use WMI in your environment.

There are books out there that just give you an introduction, but this one cuts into the daily useage and gives you hands on information.

I highly recommend it.

This clown doesn't know how to teach.

SOrry, but i don't know what on earth book the other reviewers were reading but it wasn't this one.

This guy will come up with the most ridiculously elaborate code to illustrate the simplest tasks. It takes three hours to read through all the code to figure out what he is trying to do, and COULD do in 1/10th the code he writes.

Its nice to see you can get complex and structured, but when you are writing a book to TEACH..you need to keep the samples simple.

This clown gets two stars.