Microsoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide (Pro-Other)

This is the book to use to learn VBScript if you are a network administrator, or a consultant. If you are a "real developer" or if you are a web devleoper, then do not bother. I am in the first group. I have read / looked at several books on vbscript, but they were all too confusing. In many cases, they simply copied Microsoft's documentation --- which lets be honest, dude if I could read that stuff, then I would not be buying... Read Full Review

First some background information: I work in a rather large multi-operating system environment and have several sysAdmins working for me. Like most senior level system analysts, I own dozens of books on topics of system administration and programming. I have purchased and read a number of books on windows scripting and was looking for a learning guide for my staff when I came across this one. What this books isn't. 1... Read Full Review

This is THE book for learning VB ScriptingThe book has labs and practice scripts that relates to real life scenarios.It is written in a matter so it is easy to understand he concepts of scripting.I can recomment this book for anyone that needs to learn VB Script. Both for advanced and beginners.

I wish this book had been out last year. There are a lot of good scripting books out there, but they all start from the beginning, open notepad and start programming. The vast majority of system admins do not learn scripting this way. They learn it by finding scripts on the web and 'making them work'.This book starts out with load this script from the cd. 'This' is a script, these are the elements you have to have, these... Read Full Review

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn windows scripting. Even a proficient scripter may find some gems in this well planned guide.