WMI Essentials for Automating Windows Management: Amazon.ca: Marcin Policht: Books

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The first book on the market intended as an introduction to WMI, with the goal of developing the reader's ability to write scripts independently. The book includes a large number of "ready to use" scripts, which can be implemented as they appear and customized with few changes. Through easy to read presentations of programming concepts and examples, the reader becomes familiar with XML standards. Each Script simplifies daily administrative tasks or allows for substituting third party programs for in-house ones.

The scripts included in the repository start with the most basic ones; the complexity of the scripts increases dramatically toward the end of the book to satisfy the needs of readers with more advanced skills and requirements.

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The first book on the market intended as an introduction to WMI, with the goal of developing the reader's ability to write scripts independently. The book includes a large number of "ready to use" scripts, which can be implemented as they appear and customized with few changes. Through easy to read presentations of programming concepts and examples, the reader becomes familiar with XML standards. Each Script simplifies daily administrative tasks or allows for substituting third party programs for in-house ones.

The scripts included in the repository start with the most basic ones; the complexity of the scripts increases dramatically toward the end of the book to satisfy the needs of readers with more advanced skills and requirements.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Too many elaborate samples, Mar 11 2005

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William "Willy F" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WMI Essentials for Automating Windows Management (Paperback)

This clown doesn't know how to teach.

SOrry, but i don't know what on earth book the other reviewers were reading but it wasn't this one.

This guy will come up with the most ridiculously elaborate code to illustrate the simplest tasks. It takes three hours to read through all the code to figure out what he is trying to do, and COULD do in 1/10th the code he writes.

Its nice to see you can get complex and structured, but when you are writing a book to TEACH..you need to keep the samples simple.

This clown gets two stars.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Script Coding is now Available, Aug 8 2002

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"dgurrol" - See all my reviews

This review is from: WMI Essentials for Automating Windows Management (Paperback)

I just came from "samspublishing.com" and noticed so many complaints about their being no "code samples." Well you all can just pop over to samspublishing.com and then use "Marcin Policht" in the search box to find this book. Once you are at this book's page you can see a link for "Related Materials" and it is there that you will find a small download "code.zip" to apease those who need the code samples.

I put a 5 star rating here only to offset those that said they would give it a 5 if it had the coding samples. I have not read this book and was concerned about the negative remarks. I don't need the code samples, but found it difficult to not mention that they are indeed available for download.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book - with downloadable source code (finally), Aug 7 2002

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Peter Calahan (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WMI Essentials for Automating Windows Management (Paperback)

If you are a system administrator, like I am, you will appreciate sample VBScript-based scripts presented in this book. This is what has been missing from any Microsoft WMI documentation (including their Software Development Kit). And finally the publisher (SAMS) decided to post the source code on their web site.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book -- Well done...
This book is very timely, extremely accurate, and in complete touch with the latest management technologies offered on Windows computers. Read more

Published on Sep 7 2001 by Rodney D. Trent

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay... With qualifications
Overall, the book is okay. The content is definitely beginner to intermediate as advertised but reasonably thorough. Read more

Published on Aug 28 2001 by Greg Wojan