Book Description
Summary
PowerShell and WMI is an example-driven guide for administrators managing networks of Windows servers and desktops. With 150 practical examples, including ready-to-reuse scripts and techniques, you'll learn the ins and outs of automating WMI via PowerShell v3. You'll find deep coverage of all aspects of Windows administration, including IIS, DNS and Hyper-V.
About the Technology
WMI, on its own, is simply a collection of Windows management facilities. Paired with PowerShell, however, WMI becomes a brilliant toolset for automating servers, networks, and remote Windows computers.
About the Book
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 examplesall with ready-to-use scriptsdesigned 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. Prior exposure to PowerShell and WMI is helpful but not required.
What’s Inside
Managing Windows, IIS, and Hyper-V
Remote desktops and devices
Logs, jobs, and performance
New PowerShell v3 WMI functionality
About the Author
Richard Siddaway is a veteran IT architect, server administrator, support engineer, and PowerShell MVP. He’s the author of PowerShell in Practice, published in 2010 by Manning.
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