Book description
PowerShell and WMI is an industrial-strength guide for administrators of Windows networks, servers, and desktops. You'll start with practical overviews of PowerShell and of WMI. Then you'll explore 150 specific examples — all with ready-to-use scripts — designed to simplify your day-to-day system management. Each tested technique is configured to load as part of a PowerShell module.
A set of handy appendixes includes references for PowerShell and WMI.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this book
- About the author
- About the cover Illustration
- Part 1. Tools of the trade
- Chapter 1. Solving administrative challenges
- Chapter 2. Using PowerShell
- Chapter 3. WMI in depth
- Chapter 4. Best practices and optimization
- Part 2. WMI in the enterprise
- Chapter 5. System documentation
- Chapter 6. Disk systems
- Chapter 7. Registry administration
- Chapter 8. Filesystem administration
- Chapter 9. Services and processes
- Chapter 10. Printers
- Chapter 11. Configuring network adapters
- Chapter 12. Managing IIS
- Chapter 13. Configuring a server
- Chapter 14. Users and security
- Chapter 15. Logs, jobs, and performance
- Chapter 16. Administering Hyper-V with PowerShell and WMI
- Part 3. The future: PowerShell v3 and WMI
- Chapter 17. WMI over WSMAN
- Chapter 18. Your own WMI cmdlets
- Chapter 19. CIM cmdlets and sessions
- Afterword This is not the end
- Appendix A. PowerShell reference
- Appendix B. WMI reference
- Appendix C. Best practices
- Appendix D. Useful links
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: PowerShell and WMI
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2012
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617290114
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