Book description
Get the inside track on how to write system administration scripts—straight from Microsoft scripting experts. This practical learning guide teaches how to use scripting techniques to gain control over your Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), and Microsoft Exchange Server environments—all at your own pace. Build practical skills on everything from writing your first script in Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript) to working with Windows Scripting Host (WSH), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and Active Directory® Services Interface (ADSI), and from creating logon scripts to automating the management of systems, user accounts, files, printers, the registry, network services, directory services, security features, group policy, and more. The companion CD features the complete eBook, plus more than 200 sample scripts and a host of timesaving scripting tools.
Table of contents
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Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide
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- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Acknowledgments
- About This Book
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1. Covering the Basics
- 1. Starting from Scratch
- 2. Getting in the Loop
- 3. Adding Intelligence
- 4. The Power of Many
- 5. The Power of Many More
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2. Basic Windows Administration
- 6. Working with the File System
- 7. Fun with Folders
- 8. Why Windows Management Instrumentation?
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9. WMI Continued
- Before You Begin
- Alternate Ways of Configuring the WMI Moniker
- Accepting Defaults
- Moniker Security Settings
- Summary
- Quiz Yourself
- On Your Own: Lab 18a Using the Default WMI Moniker
- Lab 18b Invoking the WMI Moniker to Display the Machine Boot Configuration
- Lab 18c Including Additional Security Permissions
- Lab 19 Using Win32_Environment and VBScript to Learn About WMI
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10. Using WMI Queries
- Before you Begin
- Tell Me Everything About Everything!
- Next
- Worker and Output Information
- Selective Data from All Instances
- Selecting Multiple Properties
- Specifying Specifics
- Smooth Operator
- Where Is the Where Clause?
- Summary
- Quiz Yourself
- On Your Own: Lab 20 Writing an Informative WMI Script
- Lab 21a Obtaining More Direct Information
- Lab 21b Using a More Complicated Where Clause
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3. Advanced Windows Administration
- 11. Introduction to Active Directory Service Interfaces
- 12. Reading and Writing for ADSI
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13. Searching Active Directory
- Before You Begin
- Connecting to Active Directory to Perform a Search
- Creating More Effective Queries
- Searching for Specific Types of Objects
- What is Global Catalog?
- Summary
- Quiz Yourself
- On Your Own: Lab 26 Creating an ADO Query into Active Directory
- Lab 27 Controlling How a Script Executes Against Active Directory
- 14. Configuring Networking Components
- 15. Subs and Other Round Things
- 16. Logon Scripts
- 17. Working with the Registry
- 18. Working with Printers
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4. Scripting Other Applications
- 19. Managing IIS 6.0
- 20. Working with Exchange 2003
- 5. Appendices
- E. About the Author
- Index
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Product information
- Title: Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2004
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735619814
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