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Advanced VBScript for Microsoft® Windows® Administrators PAP/CDR Edition

by Don Jones (Author), Jeffrey Hicks (Author)
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Take ultimate control of system administration by learning advanced scripting techniques from two experts. Experienced Windows script-writers can move beyond the basics with hands-on instruction, advanced techniques, and best practices for using Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) as an enterprise-level administrative tool. You also get ready-to-use scripts and an eBook on CD.

Discover how to:

  • Build your own scripting components and libraries
  • Use digital signatures and certificates to create security-enhanced scripts
  • Retrieve information from Active Directory with advanced ADSI techniques
  • Manage your Windows environment with advanced Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) techniques
  • Use scripts to back up, copy, restore, and set permissions for your Group Policy environment
  • Write scripts to access databases with ADO
  • Build hypertext applications for script graphical interfaces
  • Develop scripts that work with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Operations Manager
  • Exploit the scripting updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

CD features:

  • More than 100 sample scripts to adapt for your own work
  • Fully searchable eBook

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

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  1. ISBN-10
    0735622442
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0735622449
  3. Edition
    PAP/CDR
  4. Publisher
    Microsoft Press
  5. Publication date
    February 5, 2006
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.38 x 1.4 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    560 pages
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Key Book Benefits: - Covers the advanced ADSI and WMI scripting topics that other books leave out, including enterprise scripting techniques, security, scripting Group Policy, and building hypertext applications for script graphical interfaces - Builds scripting skills beyond Windows operating systems by teaching scripting techniques and best practices for Exchange Server, SQL Server, Microsoft Operations Manager, and Virtual Server - Features powerful, ready-to-run, enterprise-level scripts in each chapter - Includes a companion CD-ROM with sample scripts and utilities

About the Author

Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, writes the PowerShell column for Microsoft TechNet Magazine, and blogs about PowerShell for WindowsITPro.com. A top-rated speaker and trainer, Don developed PowerShell courseware for Microsoft and other companies, and has taught PowerShell to more than 20,000 IT pros.

Jeffery Hicks is a senior network engineer with Visory Group and President and Principal Consultant of JDH Information Technology Solutions. He has 15 years’ experience in the IT industry and regularly contributes to several IT community Web sites.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; PAP/CDR edition (February 5, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735622442
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735622449
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1.4 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

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  1. Jeffery Hicks

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    Jeffery Hicks is an IT veteran with almost 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher and consultant. Jeff has taught and presented on PowerShell and the benefits of automation to IT Pros worldwide. He has authored and co-authored a number of books, writes for numerous online sites and print publications, is a contributing editor at Petri.com, a Pluralsight author, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups. You can keep up with Jeff on Twitter (http://twitter.com/JeffHicks) and on his blog (https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog).

    His latest book is The PowerShell Practice Primer (https://leanpub.com/psprimer)

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    Don's long list of technology books is evidence of his 20+ years in the industry and his passion for helping people "level up" their technical prowess. His books on business, instructional design, self-improvement, and career management point to his belief that any subject can be made comprehensible and valuable for any given audience, and that people can benefit from having more knowledge in their tool belt. The fact that he's finally caved in and started writing science fiction and fantasy, despite those being tremendously crowded marketplaces, is proof that he's finally taken his own advice to heart. Don loves telling stories with fascinating and unique new worlds, relatable characters, and fresh takes on well-worn tropes. Don lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Customers find this book a useful reference guide for network administrators. They appreciate the well-presented topics and examples, along with the CD with tools. The writing style is clear and structured, with specific projects included. It's written for intermediate to advanced scripters and serves as a follow-up to Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide.

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Customers find the book an excellent reference guide for Windows administrators. They say it covers a wide range of concepts and provides good examples. The CD has useful tools and information.

"...dont think it even solves most problems, but it does have tools and information that WILL make you a better windows administrator...." Read more

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"Author provided a clear outline of VB Script including some really good examples. Definitely worth reading if you're new to VB." Read more

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Customers find the book's writing style clear and easy to read. They appreciate the well-structured text and neat writing style. The book provides a clear outline of VBScript, including good examples. It is written for intermediate to advanced scripters and has the primary goal of introducing scripting formats, utilities, objects, and programming. Readers say it helps them write programs that save hours of repetitive work.

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  • Tom is Tom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for WMI, ASDI, HTA, and Ideas
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2007
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    I have just recently started WMI and ADSI. I am a "top down" learner, get the hard stuff, then the simple stuff. This book is perfect for server '03 and windows system Admins. it is not a "solve every problem" I dont think it even solves most problems, but it does have tools and information that WILL make you a better windows administrator. If your just getting into scripting for windows, this is not the book for you. If you are looking for a resource that you can read through and use as a reference, to learn better ways to script your windows administrative tasks, this is the book for you. the CD has great examples and tools, along with a PDF of the book. the book is laid out very well, with specific projects, which is perfect for using this book as a reference. I read it straight through and was able to use parts of it almost every day. all of the information in this book is available at the scripting center, this book just has gotten the really good stuff for Admins, and laid it out perfectly. This book has helped me to write programs that sometimes save me hours of repetitive tasks. Example: manually removing a network virus from computers when I know all the information, but the scanner does not. I am quite happy with this book, and would reccomend it only to people with a light background in programming, and anyone that maintains a '03/XP network.
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  • Harald P.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Expands your VBScript competence, however easy to read and coherent organized
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2014
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    This book meets what can be expected after reading title and introduction: a book for Microsoft Windows administrators who have intermediate to advanced scripting skills, covering pretty much all important tasks they well may be faced with some time, either to manage them generally, to manage them in an alternative way or to manage them - I say so - in a more professional manner. (For example, think of: packaging scripts using the Windows Script File XML structure, providing scripts with a user interface by means of HTML formatting, or utilizing WMI event scripting.)
    The authors succeeded in quickly familiarizing me with techniques I only read about superficially somewhere else before. Readers, whose native language is not English (this applies to me, too), take advantage of clearly structured text and a neatly writing style.
    What I missed repeatedly was additional, deepening information about certain topics. But what if the authors had met this wish? Then the book would have been at least twice as thick. And I assume that the authors tried to avoid this: they provide everything what is necessary to perform major administrative tasks as well as tasks which one possibly had no idea how to approach before. If you miss some constants or need more details now and then, resort to the MSDN Library. If you want to become an ADSI scripting guru for example, you are free to get appropriate further reading.
    Just the fact that this book is now eight years old prevents me from awarding the best possible rating (Windows XP is considered the most recent version of Windows, and some URLs are invalid in the meantime).
    (Please excuse my English!)
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  • Jase T. Wolfe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Delivers what it promises
    Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2006
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    It never ceases to amaze me how many scripting books, including this one, start off telling you that you should already have intermediate to advanced scripting skills before you read, yet spend an initial chapter explaining what an array or an object is. It leaves me feeling that their definition of what "advanced" is will differ greatly from mine. I am also always a little dismayed when throughout, a book plugs a costly script development studio and spends time pointing out why your chosen script editor isn't good enough for your projects.

    That said, Advanced VBScript delivers what it promises. It is written for intermediate to advanced scripters and has the primary goal of introducing scripting formats, utilities, objects and processes that might otherwise be overlooked. The beginning introduces you to the WSF XML format for scripts, why you would want to use it, and how to convert your existing scripts to this format. From there you are shown how to utilize scripts as COM objects, how to add an interface to your scripts via HTML and HTA applications, performing remote scripting, and expand your scripts ability using database, ADSI, WMI components. The last section focuses on working with Exchange 2003, MOM 2005 and Virtual Server 2005. At around 500 pages, the book is certainly not an exhaustive reference for each component examined. You are provided a good introduction and general instructions to the topic, given many recipe scripts for immediate inclusion in your environment, and then provided additional detail on where to go to focus on the topic.

    The book is formatted to not only be a start to finish textbook, but also serve as an excellent reference guide for the introduced components later on. Although you may find similar scripting information scattered about other VBScript books, here you have a great deal of well presented topics that cover a broad spectrum of concepts. Inclusion of this title to your reference library will provide you the information you need while keeping your bookshelf compact.
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  • MGMcd
    5.0 out of 5 stars As good as they say
    Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2006
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    This is an excellent follow on book to "Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide," ISBN: 0735618674, which was my previous bible. I had long ago advanced past much of what is written in that excellent foundation book for VBScript, and this advanced volume really fills in the gaps. After purchasing numerous VB and VBA references that are nothing more than syntax libraries, I feel I finally have the big picture on the capabilities of this technology with this book. It is all clear.

    Combined with the Windows Internals book, I don't think there is anything I couldn't do now that I had wanted to do with this technology previously. The chapters on scripting database connections and HTAs are worth the price alone. If you do any serious scripting work, this book is the true capstone. And who else could publish such a book than the horse's mouth itself?
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  • talkinghead
    4.0 out of 5 stars Really good book
    Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2014
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    Author provided a clear outline of VB Script including some really good examples. Definitely worth reading if you're new to VB.
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  • MARTIN ST-JEAN
    4.0 out of 5 stars It's well done
    Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2013
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    The think's that make it better, is the fact that you have the book on pdf format ans also have all the script in the book on a CD. So you don't have to type it to try it.
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