Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book

As a Systems Administrator, this is (by far) the best scripting resource I've found. This is a MUST HAVE! Most IT books have a lot of "filler". Not this one! Every page is filled with excellent information and valuable pre-written scripts that you can start using immediately. Excellent Value! This book has more bang for the buck than I've seen in years! If you're considering purchasing this book, don't waste any more time. Buy it today while you can still get your hands on a copy! (out of print)

Now in a newly updated and expanded second edition, Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book by Microsoft Windows expert Jesse M. Torres is a comprehensive and superbly organized, 464-page instructional reference and resource. Focusing on immediate solutions to difficult problems with security, information gathering; automatic task scheduling; basic information concerning Windows 2000/XP/2003 architecture, and a great deal more, Windows Admin Scripting is an excellent, detailed and thorough reference which is especially recommended to the attention of systems administrators.

I ordered this book after reading its review ... I need automate system rollouts, create/modify users, install applications, etc; and this book shows how to do it quickly and simply. I especially like that all examples are shown in 3 different scripting languages, because then I get to choose what language I want to use or whats easiest or appropriate.This book covers both automating Windows and common 3rd party products. the author picked a good selection of 3rd party apps, as I use most of these in my environment (winzip, ghost, norton antivirus).I wish the book were physically smaller, like the microsoft pocket guides and came with a cd (although you can download all the scripts and other stuff from the author's website). Besides that, excellent.

The first edition of this book has been out of print for some time. Mine is ragged from flipping through it. Covering the most common areas of scripting an administrator would be concerned with, you have the additional option of choosing the method best for you from the multiple solutions provided. VBS is covered lots of places, but Batch is becoming a hard topic to find good information on- KiXtart? Forget about it- until the first edition of this book hit, there was little mention of KiXtart in any book! Highly recommended!

The nice thing about this book is the multiscripting support. Say you want to logoff a user, shutdown a remote pc, and disable a user's account - it's in here, in shell (batch), windows script host, or kixtart.