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Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide PAP/CDR Edition

by Microsoft Corporation (Author)
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Discover how to automate Microsoft® Windows® 2000 administrative tasks quickly and easily with expertise from those who know the technologies best—the system administration scripting experts on the Windows 2000 product team. Focusing on scripting for the administrator, this guide helps you understand important scripting concepts and technologies, and it shows how to use common scripting tools and techniques to complete routine tasks in core administrative areas. Combining tutorial and practical elements, it details how to create and use timesaving scripts in organizations of any size.

UNDERSTAND SCRIPTING CONCEPTS:

  • Get started fast with 400+ sample scripts on CD-ROM and learn about important scripting concepts and technologies, including what scripting is and when and why you should use it.

  • Find out how to use scripting technologies such as Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript), Windows Script Host (WSH), the Microsoft Script Runtime object library, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Active Directory® Service Interfaces (ADSI).

COMPLETE COMMON TASKS WITH SCRIPTS:

  • Manage user accounts and identify and manage computer roles.

  • Inventory hardware; manage hard disks and other physical components, inventory, install, and remove software, and read, create, delete, and modify Registry keys and values.

  • Create, delete, copy, move, and monitor folders and files; manage event logs and log files; and manage printers and printer connections on both print servers and client computers.

  • Monitor running processes; create and terminate processes; monitor, start, and stop services; and retrieve and configure service accounts, passwords, and properties.

USE SCRIPTS IN THE ENTERPRISE:

  • Set up an enterprise scripting infrastructure and modify scripts for a large organization.

  • Follow best practices when scripting in a team environment.

INCLUDES SAMPLE SCRIPTS, AN EBOOK, AND TOOLS ON CD-ROM:

  • More than 400 sample scripts from the book that you can cut and paste to get started right away
  • A fully searchable electronic copy of the book
  • Microsoft Windows Script 5.6, containing VBScript 5.6, JScript® 5.6, WSH 5.6, Windows Script Components, and Windows Script Runtime 5.6.
  • Documentation for VBScript, Jscript, and WSH
  • Scriptomatic tool to expedite scriptwriting with WMI

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The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0735618674
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0735618671
  3. Edition
    PAP/CDR
  4. Publisher
    Microsoft Press
  5. Publication date
    January 19, 2003
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.38 x 2.33 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    1328 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; PAP/CDR edition (January 19, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1328 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735618674
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735618671
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 2.33 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book informative and useful for learning VBScript. They describe the writing as concise and well-written, with clear examples that can be taken apart. Overall, customers consider it an excellent resource for introducing scripting to experienced IT technicians.

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Customers find the book helpful and useful for learning VBScript. They say it introduces experienced IT technicians to scripting and opens their eyes to what can be done. The examples are well-written and help them understand the material better.

"...the book are small and seem to work well, and there is good information to be had, especially if you're new to WMI, and the information on WMI alone..." Read more

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"I am not a scripting Guru by any stretch. However, the book proved immediately useful. Used the sample CDO script...." Read more

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Customers find the book well-written and concise. They appreciate the small examples throughout the book that work well. The writing quality is considered good and worth the price.

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  • MGMcd
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, must have for the administrator
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2004
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    This is one of the best, if not THE best scripting book I have read. As it states, it is written for the administrator, so its focus is limited to that aspect of scripting. But it is so well focused, well written, concise and full of pertinent examples that I couldn't help but learn more about scripting that is applicable to all aspects of scripting. I have applied lessons learned here to Access VBA, for example, with great effect.
    If you have only one book on scripting, this is it. It covers VBScript, JScript, ADSI, WMI, etc. Very well done and well worth the price.
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  • Mike
    4.0 out of 5 stars Decent WMI Book for creatures of habit
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2005
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    There is quite a bit of good information to be had in this book. But If you have any programming experience at all, you'll probably find the writing style way too elementary. Example code in the vbs chapter, for example, goes something like "if you want to do this, then do it like this" and then a statement follows like "set objWhatEver = GetObject("xxx.xxx")" with no explanation that objWhatEver is a variable, or what a variable is in the first place, and that the first 3 letters of the variable name, in this case obj, is used by the person writing the script to recognize the type of variable they are using, in this case an object. If you're a creature of habit, then this style of just memorizing steps may be fine, but most of us want to understand WHY we are doing it this way, and what the various parts of a statement represent. The book is mainly on WMI which is new to me. Overall, the examples throughout the book are small and seem to work well, and there is good information to be had, especially if you're new to WMI, and the information on WMI alone is worth 4 stars to me. I do think that the beginner may not have quite as good of an understanding of the mechanics of the scripts he or she is going to be writing as they should have with a volume this big and this expensive.
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  • citan-uzuki
    3.0 out of 5 stars Introduction to Scripting
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2008
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    This is a good book to introduce an experienced IT technician into the world of VBScript. With script, you can manage the computers on your network with less work. However, do keep in mind that you have to know how to use VBScript. And, to be honest, so far it has not been easy for me. But it is worthwhile to learn because this is a skill that any aspiring network administrator will need to learn. And this book does a credible job of introducing you to scripts.
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  • John R. Spencer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Immediate Use in Production
    Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2003
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    I am not a scripting Guru by any stretch. However, the book proved immediately useful. Used the sample CDO script. Saved endless wrangling how to use email in an automatic manner.
    I can see many other useful expamples coming up for use.
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  • Jamie
    4.0 out of 5 stars Bought this to get some ideas for scripting in XP
    Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013
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    The enterprise environment that I work in still uses Win XP even though we are still trying to shift to Win7. We are still on XP because of related main frame applications that will not work in a x64 environment. This book is good and the examples provided are written so that you can take portions from different ones and combine them together. One of the best things is that it has opened up my mind to how much can be done through scripting.
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  • Alex Angelopoulos
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate WSH book for System Administrators
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2003
    I won't claim this is the only scripting book you should ever buy. I WILL claim that it is the WSH "missing manual" for system administrators. The short story is that it provides comprehensive, in-depth coverage of WSH admin scripting with excellent code examples, and as such is a rare combination of instructional use and long-term reference value. Personally, I haven't thought a book on WSH in the last three years was worth buying; this is the one I've been waiting for.
    As a comprehensive reference, this book stands alone. System administrators have been historically short-changed when it comes to scripting books; most written for Windows tend to be generically focused on languages rather than on the details of WSH, and usually cover only a handful of the technologies. This one is written by scripters who appear to use it every day, and they cover the breadth of topics: interactions with everything from system logs to ADSI to WMI. Although the code is almost entirely in VBScript, the focus is on application, not language tricks. If you want to any other Active Scripting language as your host, the code is plain vanilla enough to be easily translated.
    In providing depth, the authors had some special advantages and they used them to the hilt. It was written by Microsoft insiders who know the internals of the technologies such as COM, ADSI, and WMI which well-rounded scripting uses. When covering the range of topics for admin scripters, the authors pushed explaining the why and how in unequaled detail, and made liberal use of charts for explaining difficult concepts where appropriate.
    Coding quality is a critical factor as far as I am concerned in any book about programming or scripting; after all, good code is the test of a good coder, and in a book on scripting it shows that the author knows more than just the layout of a few random object models. Even judged on this alone, Microsoft's "Windows 2000 Scripting Guide" sparkles. Most topical scripting books have appalling code style; not this one. Code is explained carefully, and with few exceptions is written in the form of well-wrapped procedures which can be dropped into your own scripts and used as-is - variables are declared, input/output is separated from calculations, and most importantly, the procedures appear to be written with the explicit goal of making purpose and technique clear for the reader.
    There are very few books out there which do an enduring job of teaching a concept, showing useful code, and providing critical reference material. This book does all three; if you get it, it will be your main WSH scripting sourcebook for years to come.
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  • Rialtus
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great resource, but TYPOS?!?
    Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2004
    If you want to write a script on how to find the cosine of an angle, this *isn't* your book. This is specifically geared to system administrators to make our lives significantly easier.
    If you don't know anything about scripting, this is a great resource to get you started. It starts with the basics of VBScript, adds in things like WMI and WSH, and brings it all together for you to get work done.
    If you already know scripting, this is a great reference book.
    The most horrible thing (and what caused the 4 stars) is that there are an unacceptable number of typos in this book. Of course, if you are reading this, it's fairly easy to see these errors because the code and description don't make sense together...
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  • Willy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Belle brique
    Reviewed in France on June 18, 2016
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    Un bon gros bouquin sur le Scripting système, très bien écrit et d'excellents exemples. C'est sur une vieille version (Windows 2000) mais toujours d'actualité, excellent pour débuter et plonger dedans.
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  • S. Rayment
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent scripting book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2003
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    I've bought and read several scripting books over the last couple of years but this one must be described as the "bible". It is an excellent reference as well as taking you through the principals of writing VB/WSH/WMI scripts.
    The content is based on material from the MS site. The CD includes all the sample code shown in the book as well as a reference help file.
    With this book, I was able to write a companies W2K logon scripts and include additional functions found in this book.
    Although it is a large book, I found it easy to skip chapters to focus on areas I had to research.
    There is a very comprehensive chapter on WMI. If you need a VBS reference book, this is the one.
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  • Mr. J. Pembroke
    4.0 out of 5 stars great book, tome of brilliance!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2014
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    really useful book full of in depth knowledge and has brilliant explanatory value especially to those who are new to scripting or script language, delivery time was good condition was better than expected, if you want a bit of light reading into scripts this is not the book for you it is a tome of knowledge so is very bulky .. shame the cd-rom does not work thats the reason for 4 not 5 but im nit picking, a definite good book at a brilliant price
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  • Dan Coin
    4.0 out of 5 stars An oracle of obsolete knowledge
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2017
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    A mighty tome ... they really don't make them like this any more
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