operating systems

I went thru the book and thought the lessons were good. The way the book disects every script as you read it is great for beginners. Ed's technical reveiwer(s) did him a disservice by not check every lab on the CD against what he had in print. Of the 40 labs 3 do not work at all. If you cut and paste from the book text you can get 3 more to work. So 6 out of 40 labs have issues. The chapter 15 labs are broke all the way around. You need to adjust most of the labs to get them to work in your environment and there is no discussion of this in the text. For a book on scripting, the debugging was average.

This is THE book for learning VB Scripting

The 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 are 'nice to have' and here is how it works. The first lesson manipulates those elements so you see their importance and the second is what so many people already do, modify the script to make it do something else.

The book then begins to provide you with the tools to gather information, monitor and report. From there, it switches over into administration. The tone is friendly and conversational. It clarified things that I had picked up elsewhere but not fully understood until now.

It comes with a demo version of Primal Script which I use and enjoy. As a free alternative to notepad that does color context highlighting for VBScript, you can use http://www.crimsoneditor.com