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Title: Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation Rating: 5/5  This is an incredible tool. Any administrator wishing to do anything from basic scripting to complex Active Directory or remote computer control needs to pick up this book. For those starting out in administrative scripting, this title offers plain English and easy to understand primers in VBScript and the WSH. For administrators already familiar with the core language, the primers section continues with ADSI and WMI - both written so well as to completely demystify the process. After the primers, a vast amount of information is given on scripting standard production environment tasks, making this title useful regardless of your need for the primers. The true wealth of this title is the ability to get more information out of it than is printed. Besides the abundance of script snippets which are easily used in any production environment, is the printed links to outside information and utilities on Microsoft's web site, as well as the CD-ROM which contains not only an on-line form of the book but many additional tools for generating scripts. As a point of interest, the on-line version of this book is completely free and on Microsoft's web site as well. Search for the title on their site to find it. Certainly not the last purchase you will make for WMI and ADSI scripting. I've found inconsistencies between Microsoft's information and information published by others (usually resolved by the third parties information), which made me glad I had the other titles. All in all - the title is a must for all system administrators.
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Title: Excel 2003 Personal Trainer (Personal Trainer (O'Reilly)) Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: CustomGuide Inc Rating: 4/5  Along with the PowerPoint 2003 Personal Trainer book, I received a review copy of Excel 2003 Personal Trainer (O'Reilly) the other day. This is one I won't show my wife, as I think I'll keep this one for myself. Chapter List: The Fundamentals; Editing a Worksheet; Formatting a Worksheet; Creating and Working with Charts; Managing Your Workbooks; More Functions and Formulas; Working with Lists; Automating Tasks with Macros; Working with Other Programs; Using Excel with the Internet; Data Analysis and PivotTables; What-If Analysis; Advanced Topics; Index As a long-time techie, people expect me to be an expert in any software they happen to be running. One of the more common questions I get is "how do I do <insert their problem here> in Excel?". To which I answer... "Beats me!" I've just never taken the time to learn how to work the software. In fact, my wife (who is a relative newbie when it comes to software) knows more about Excel than I do. So, looking at this book, I think it's about time to improve on those skills. The Personal Trainer series uses a lightly-themed muscle/superhero motif that isn't overly cute or annoying. Each chapter has objectives, a central task, and prerequisites to working the following lessons. After anywhere from five to twenty lessons for a given chapter, there's a summary of the material, a quiz, and "homework" that you can do to explore a little further on your own. On top of all that, the CD in the back has an Excel simulator you can use to practice your skills without necessarily having to have the software loaded on a given computer. Since I have Excel loaded, I won't need that, nor will I have to go through each of the lessons that assume little to no background in Excel or even how Window applications work. But I should be able to grasp all the Excel fundamentals I sorely lack right now in a relatively short period of time. And then I might be able to answer some of my wife's pleas for application support. Good material, covers all the basics and quite a few of the bells and whistles, and it all reads well. Now if I can only hide it from my wife...
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Title: C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall Authors: Samuel P. Harbison, Guy L. Steele Rating: 5/5 Along with K&R2, the C standard itself and a handful of other books, this is one of the ``canonical'' volumes that should be on every C programmer's desk. It helps to flesh out the grammar of the language with some excellent examples and commentary (not contextually suited a to a document like the standard). H&S make a strong case for ``Clean C'', code compliant with all of ISO, pre-ISO and C++. Aside from a few typos, minor errors and an unfortunate ``void main'', this comes with a high recommendation from yours truly. Plus, one may presume that Sam Harbison is a Steeler fan given his geography. (That add the ``.5'' to the 9 score).
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Title: Professional C#, Second Edition Publisher: Wrox Authors: Simon Robinson, K. Scott Allen, Ollie Cornes, Jay Glynn, Zach Greenvoss, Burton Harvey, Christian Nagel, Morgan Skinner, Karli Watson Rating: 4/5 I have only reached the 250 pages on this book, I woould say this is by far the best C# book that I own. I do agree that the book is verbose. Most important thing is that the subject matter is covered extensively.
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