How to cheat at Windows System Administration using command line scripts
[Book]
/ Pawan K. Bhardwaj, Kimon Andreou, technical editor
; Brian Barber, Dave Kleiman, Mahesh Satyanarayana
Rockland, MA
: Syngress,
, c2006.
xviii, 462 p. , ill. , 23 cm.
Electronic
Includes index.
The book is divided into five sections. The first section covers the basics of command line scripts and batch files including, usage of filters, conditional processing and command redirection. Readers will learn to create and schedule tasks to automating administration jobs from the Task Scheduler and from the command prompt. Part two discusses basic Windows administration including disk check, disk defragmentation, converting basic disks to dynamic, and file system commands as well as administering partitions and volumes. Part three focuses on scripting Active Directory including administering user and group accounts, and administering computers and domains. Part four moves on to Windows networking where the reader will learn to troubleshooting command-line tools, manage network printers, manage services for DHCP, DNS, WINS services as well as manage and monitor security including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and certificate services. In the final part of the book, readers learn to manage Windows systems including starting and stopping services, configuring service startup types, managing event log files, setting log filters, configuring system monitor, starting a performance log, setting objects, and configuring performance alerts.
How to Cheat at Windows Systems Administrators using Command line scripts teaches system administrators hundreds of powerful, time-saving tips for automating daily system administration tasks using Windows command line scripts. With every new version of Windows, Microsoft is trying to ease the administration jobs by adding more and more layers of graphical user interface (GUI) or configuration wizards (dialog boxes). While these wizards are interactive and make the administrators job easier, they are not always the most convenient and efficient way to accomplish the everyday administration tasks. These wizards are time consuming and, at times, may seem a bit confusing. The purpose of the book is to teach administrators how to use command-line scripts to complete everyday administration jobs, solve recurring network problems and at the same time improve their efficiency. *Provides system administrators with hundreds of tips, tricks, and scripts to complete administration tasks more quickly and efficiently. *No direct competition for a core tool for Windows administrators. *Builds on success of other books in the series including How to Cheat at Managing Windows Small Business Server 2003 and How to Cheat at Managing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.
Pt. I. Getting started with command line -- Ch. 1. Basics of the command line -- Ch. 2. Using batch files -- Ch. 3. Managing scheduled tasks -- Pt. II. Basic windows administration -- Ch. 4. Managing files and directories -- Ch. 5. Maintaining hard disks -- Ch. 6. Managing hard disks with the diskpart utility -- Pt. III. Managing windows systems and printers -- Ch. 7. System services, drivers, and the registry -- Ch. 8. Monitoring system events, processes, and performance -- Ch. 9. Managing printing services -- Pt. IV. Working with active directory -- Ch. 10. Overview of directory services commands -- Ch. 11. Managing active directory users, groups, and computers -- Pt. V. Windows networking -- Ch. 12. Basic TCP/IP networking commands -- Ch. 13. Administering network services -- App. MS-DOS commands not supported in Windows XP and Windows 2003.