Overview
The only complete reference for Windows command line utilities
Instant results for time-crunched IT professionals
The last thing you want as a busy systems administrator is to click endlessly through the Windows GUI every time you need to perform a simple task. Want a better solution? Windows Administration at the Command Line reacquaints you with the often-overlooked utilities accessible through the command line in Windows 2003, XP, and 2000.
Locate files, check system status, secure and monitor systems, and best of all, save time by using scripts to automate your time-consuming management tasks. This practical book reveals all the command line utilities and puts them right at your fingertips. The only resource on the market with the complete set of Windows command line utilities, this hands-on reference gives you solutions that yield superior results compared to GUI-based utilities, increasing your productivity in the field.
Inside you'll find:
* The complete set of all Windows command line utilities
* Real world scenarios that focus on practical applications
* Information on third-party utilities and scripting techniques
* Instructions for using the .NET Framework utilities
* A preview of Windows Vista utilities including detailed instructions for using Monad and MSH
* An appendix with 52 command line tricks and techniques
In the Field Results
Provides seasoned systems administrators with advanced tools, knowledge, and real-world skills to use on the job. Going beyond what the standard documentation or classroom training provides, these practical guides address the real situations IT professionals face every day, offering streamlined solutions to improve productivity.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewMicrosoft’s once-puny command line has gradually been beefed up into a powerhouse. And, with Microsoft’s forthcoming PowerShell, it’ll be even more imposing. Administrators, power users, and programmers owe it to themselves to master its immense power. The best way to do it: Read John Paul Mueller’s Windows Administration at the Command Line.
Mueller, author of Microsoft Windows XP Power Optimization, is one of the world’s leading experts on squeezing more out of Windows. Here, he covers virtually every command line tool of any significance -- more than 280 in all.
The focus, however, is on solving problems, not just discovering tools. Need to perform faster, more repeatable backups? Search for text more effectively than Windows’ built-in search feature can do it? Discover the services running on your system that Task Manager won’t show? Quickly uncover a user’s full name? Mueller reveals how.
You’ll find dozens of techniques for discovering system status, securing and monitoring Windows computers, automating administration, and much more. There’s a full section on third-party tools -- from command prompt enhancers like XVI32 and ShellExView to productivity enhancers like ToggIt, PromptPal, and WinOne. Mueller even takes you under the hood with command line tools for configuring .NET Framework and ASP.NET.
He concludes with a preview of the enhanced command line utilities that will be introduced with Windows Vista, as well as a full chapter on Microsoft’s widely anticipated new scripting environment, PowerShell (formerly known as Monad).
This book, by the way, is the flagship title in Sybex’s promising new In the Field Results series. (If you’re running Microsoft Exchange, you’ll also want to check out the series’ next title: Jim McBee’s Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Advanced Administration.) Bill Camarda, from the June 2006 Read Only