Dedication

To my parents, June and RonWithout your help, support, and encouragementI’d never have been able to do this

Brief Table of Contents

 

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

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments