Windows Nt Scripting Administrator's Guide (Paperback)

~ (Author), William R. Stane (Author)

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Product Description

The new Windows Scripting Host finally offers system and networks administrators a powerful means to automate many of their most common tasks. In this concise professional reference, expert author William Stanek introduces readers to this new feature and shows them how to put it to work with the VBScript or JScript scripting languages. In addition, Stanek thoroughly explains how to use the older Windows NT shell command language to automate tasks not yet possible with WSH.

Parts 1 and 2 of the book introduce the reader to traditional batch scripting and the new Windows Scripting Host, a feature now found on Windows 98, Windows NT 4 Workstation and Windows NT Server 4. The book also introduces the reader to the two most-widely-used scripting languages on Windows platforms, VBScript and JScript, and shows how other popular languages, such as Perl, could be substituted. The remaining parts of the book show how to create scripts of increasing sophistication to solve common administrative problems on Windows 98 and Windows NT 4 Workstation clients, Windows NT 4 servers and networks of NT hosts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 478 pages
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing; 1 edition (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764533096
• ISBN-13: 978-0764533099
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,022,278 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars On second thought, this is a good book, January 4, 2000

By	mutambavhu (boston, ma) - See all my reviews

My previous review expressed reservations about this book because of the errors in a couple of chapters. I emailed Willaim Stanek about these and he quickly updated me with a full page of all the typos which were generated during production/copy editing. Having made all these changes to my copy I revist my review and add an extra level.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of Windows scripting, November 20, 2000

By	Richard McClelland (Munich, Germany) - See all my reviews

This book is an excellent resource for any NT administrator who seeks to utilize windows scripts to maximize their productivity. The first six chapters covers windows scripting and the last five chapters provide a good overview of Visual Basic and Java Scripting. I, too, have found the errors mentioned in a previous review but the errors are obviously typos and don't detract from the value of the book. I sent the author an email and he responded promptly with a URL for online errata that covers all the errors that I have found. Before I found this book, I was using an odd assortment of Dos 6.0 scripting references that were clearly out of date and I didn't utilize Visual Basic scripting at all. Now I am producing much better scripts and am quite pleased with the return I have received on my time spent reading the book.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Its not as good/sharp as Tim Hill's Win NT Shell Scripting, January 3, 2000

By	mutambavhu (boston, ma) - See all my reviews

I have covered about a third of this book and so this review is not exhaustive. Having found Tim Hill's book at times too challenging or lacking basic explanation on some topics, I have found this book to be a good substitute. However its flawed with errors i.e. on redicting input and output - on appends etc. So if you are going to use this book, better have a substitute for cross checking some of the syntax and commands or manually try each command and example provided in the book and hopeful figure out the mistakes, if any...

So far, I have therefore found Stanek's book very useful and also erroneous in some instances.