Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446 EAN: 9780735621664 ISBN: 0735621667 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Platform: No Operating System Publication Date: June 22, 2005 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 251161 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionGet the detailed guidance, tips, and tools you need to automate Windows system administration including 120 full working scripts with command-line controls on the CD! Windows automation expert Don Jones shows you how to run the scripts as written or customize them for your unique requirements. You ll learn how to reconfigure multiple services on a computer, shut down multiple remote computers, add users to Active Directory(r) directory service, automate security configurations, work with Internet Information Services 6.0, and perform other key computer and network management tasks. You ll also explore advanced scripting tools. The CD features all 120 timesaving scripts, plus a bonus eBook to further your scripting expertise.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Microsoft Windows Administrator's Automation Toolkit review
I found the content to be light on. Most of this suff is well documented on the web and most admins would find it in minutes. Took me about 30 minutes to go through and doubt I will ever open it again.
Rating: - Great book
An excellent very technical, yet easy to get along, learn from, and use in daily activities.
Rating: - A fair kickoff point for the subject
Windows automation books come in two styles - Recipe Book, where the reader needs only a remedial knowledge of scripting and has been given hundreds of task-based scripts, and Development Guide, where the reader is only given the tools and training to create the task-based scripts instead. This title falls closer to the first than the last.
Although the reader is presented with a quick overview of scripting concepts, you are not assumed to know how to script but have enough technical ... Read More