Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Authors and their Chapters
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
About Save the Children
1. PowerShell administration
Chapter 1. Diagnosing and troubleshooting PowerShell remoting
Diagnostics examples
A perfect remoting connection
Connection problem: Blocked port
Connection problem: No permissions
Connection problem: Untrusted host
Summary
About the author
Chapter 2. CIM sessions
WMI
CIM cmdlets
Using CIM sessions
CIM session options
Chapter 3. Collecting and analyzing performance counter data
Windows Performance Logs and Alerts
Enumerating the counter groups
Finding the right counters
Accessing the counters��� data
Controlling the sampling and the collection interval
Getting the data from remote computers
Using jobs for long-running tasks
Saving the performance data to a file
Saving the data to a binary file (BLG)
Saving the data to an Excel file (CSV)
Manipulating stored performance data from a file
Chapter 4. TCP port communications with PowerShell
Testing for an open port
Building a more robust port checker
Sending and receiving data
Sending data
Receiving data
LDAP port communications
Testing port 389 and receiving data with portqry.exe