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Windows Script Host (Circle)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.44769
EAN: 9781578701391
ISBN: 1578701392
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: November 01, 1999
Publisher: Sams
Studio: Sams
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Editorial Review:
Having established a name with his superb Windows NT Shell Scripting, Tim Hill has written a fine book about the Windows technology that's replacing DOS-like batch files. Windows Script Host explains the latest Windows scripting technology, focusing on VBScript as a tool for developing robust scripting solutions under Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000.
More than his earlier work (which was largely a collection of ready-to-run administration scripts tailored for particular tasks), this book is a tutorial. It's meant to get you up to speed on several technologies, including the ActiveX-based Windows scripting architecture, the Windows Script Host (WSH) itself, the WSH interpreters (cscript.exe and wscript.exe), the VBScript language, and the WSH object model.
Those readers who are looking for ready solutions to their administration woes will find some manna here. Hill has written and published several useful scripts, including one that generates a list of a machine's users, one that configures a user's environment variables at login, and one that generates a directory listing in XML form. (There's no companion disk, though.)
Programmers who want a solid explanation of the WSH's programming environment (hardly documented until now) will be most pleased. Documentation of the WSH object model, especially the portion that exposes the file system, is excellent (though you may wish for different formatting). There are also a couple of utility files included--they'll make it easier for you to build your own administration scripts. --David Wall
Topics covered: The Windows Script Host (WSH), VBScript programming, the VBScript object model, the WSH object model (with emphasis on files, folders, and other aspects of the Windows file system), using the author's WSH library files, and performing system administration tasks with ready-to-run scripts.
Written for system and network administrators, Windows Script Host includes authoritative coverage of the VBScript language essentials, including script structure and statements; detailed discussion of the object-oriented paradigm, how it is used in Windows system scripting, and how to emply COM objects; program guides that provide additional insight for those who are new to programming; and proven, ready-to-use scripting solutions, including sample logon and system management scripts.If you design or administer Windows NT/2000 networks, this is an essential resource to help you implement system scripting across your network. This comprehensive reference will help you: install system scripting components on your network; automate or simplify system management tasks, ranging from copying files to monitoring a set of enterprise servers; create your own COM objects in VBScript through the use of Windows Script Components; and get immediate results by employing proven sample scripts.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good tutorial on VBScript and WSH
As other reviewers have noted, this book almost exclusively focuses on using WSH with VBScript rather than a more general tour of WSH and other scripting languages (as perhaps implied by the title). Fortunately, this is exactly what I was looking for and, as a newcomer to VB, I found the book provided a good, thorough tutorial on VBScript with plenty of inline examples on the various language features and built-in WSH and VBScript objects.
The book is well organized, starting with the ... Read More
Rating: - Great for newbies
After scripting in Linux for some time, I have realized that I should go Windows as well, for all of our commercial servers are Windows based. So I have blindly purchased this book and it came out to be a great purchase.
I'm not creating any elaborate scripts, but I have successfully created many of them that run every day without a hickup. And I took this book as my reference book. But please note, that this is no reference book, one has to find the topic and read it through in order ... Read More
Rating:  - Very limited in focus. Incomplete in some areas.
This book was ok but was very limited in scope.
The IIS section is incomplete and is missing scripting for a few technologies.
IMO, this book seems to focus on scriptable methods of common GUI admin tasks. I was expecting more coverage of how to script admin tasks that are not available in the Operating System.
A book with a reference section of common or admin related commands (or reference info like in his basic shell scripting book execellent reference by the way!) would needs ... Read More
Rating:  - Deceptive Title
As one of the other reviewers here, Ales from Slovenia, pointed out, this book is not for experienced VBscript developers! Because most of the content is not about WSH, but about VBscript. If you are an experienced developer looking for an in depth and detailed discussion of WSH, you are going to be very disappointed with this book. It's WSH coverage doesn't even surpass MSDN's. This books assumes little to no scripting experience, and as a result, the bulk of the book is an effort in teaching scripting, ... Read More
Rating:  - You can download source code!
I am currently reading this book and have found it to be very helpful so far. I have already read Tim's NT Shell scripting book and loved it.
The main reason for writing this review is to tell users that YOU CAN DOWNLOAD SOURCE CODE but not from the link listed in the book. You must go to new riders website and do a search on the book. Once you find the book there is a link to download the source code.
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