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| Manning Early Access Program |
PowerShell and WMI Richard Siddaway MEAP Began: November 2010 Softbound print: March 2012 (est.) | 450 pages ISBN: 9781617290114 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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Part 1 Tools of the Trade
1. Solving Administrative challenges - FREE 2. Using PowerShell - AVAILABLE 3. WMI in depth - AVAILABLE 4. Best practices - AVAILABLE Part 2 WMI in the enterprise 5. System documentation - AVAILABLE 6. Disk systems - AVAILABLE 7. Registry administration - AVAILABLE 8. File system - AVAILABLE 9. Services and processes - AVAILABLE 10. Printers - AVAILABLE 11. Networking - AVAILABLE 12. Managing IIS - AVAILABLE 13. Configuring a server - AVAILABLE 14. Users and security - AVAILABLE 15. Logs, jobs, and performance - AVAILABLE 16. Hyper-V - AVAILABLE Part 3 The future of WMI 17. Windows Remote Management - AVAILABLE 18. Your own WMI Cmdlets 19. Extending the reach of WMI Appendices A: PowerShell reference B: WMI reference C: Group policy filters D: DNS service records E: Useful links |
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DESCRIPTION
WMI, Windows Management Instrumentation, provides a standard infrastructure for managing all aspects of Windows-based systems. WMI isn't new, but now that you can script it using PowerShell, it's just gotten infinitely easier to use! Taken together, WMI and PowerShell create an extraordinarily powerful mechanism automating the management of servers, networks, and remote Windows computers.
PowerShell and WMI is an example-driven guide for administrators managing networks of Windows servers and desktops. With over 150 specific examples—including ready-to-reuse scripts and techniques—you'll learn the ins and outs of automating WMI via PowerShell 2. You'll find deep coverage of all aspects of Windows administration, including IIS, DNS and Hyper-V.
The first part of the book introduces PowerShell and WMI together by presenting a set of best practices that can be applied to PowerShell and WMI. Part 2 then digs into the day-to-day management concerns you'll face in your own systems. Each of the numerous tested techniques is presented as series of functions that can be loaded as PowerShell modules. This provides an easy method of accessing the functionality as well as demonstrating the advanced capabilities of PowerShell.
You'll find practical coverage of topics like:
- System configuration
- Disk systems
- Registry
- File systems
- Shares
- Services and processes
- Printers
- Networking
- IIS
- Configuring a server
- Users and security
- Logs, jobs and performance
- Hyper-V
A set of handy appendices include references for PowerShell, WMI, DNS, and a set of useful links to web-based resources.
The book is written for working Windows administrators. Prior exposure to PowerShell is helpful but not required.
About the Author
Richard Siddaway is an IT Architect with 20 years experience as a server administrator, support engineer, DBA, and architect. He is a PowerShell MVP and founded the UK PowerShell User Group. Richard is the author of PowerShell in Practice, published in 2010 by Manning.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of PowerShell and WMI enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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