To my parents, June and RonWithout your help, support, and encouragementI’d never have been able to do this
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
About the author
About the cover Illustration
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
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
3. The future: PowerShell v3 and WMI
Chapter 17. WMI over WSMAN
Chapter 18. Your own WMI cmdlets
Chapter 19. CIM cmdlets and sessions
Appendix 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