Summary:

Understanding Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Scripting is the first of Lissoir’s two books dedicated to WMI. This first book explains to Windows Administrators the various WMI scripting techniques available to ease their day-to-day management tasks. Under Windows Server 2003, Microsoft made solid enhancements in WMI. This dramatically extends the scripting and manageability capabilities of this new Windows platform. Illustrated with more than a hundred samples, the book explains the underlying technology and how WMI can be put to work. Alain focuses not only on WMI programming aspects for developers but on how administrators can use what is available is Windows for their admin work. WMI is a very important topic under Windows Server 2003, so this book provides real added value to Windows administrators. Once you have finished reading and practicing the first volume, you will be ready to apply your WMI knowledge to any technology that interfaces with WMI. This may include managing SNMP devices, monitoring Active Directory replication, or configuring the security in a Windows environment. Lissoir’s second book, Leveraging WMI Scripting (ISBN 1-55558-299-0), addresses the most advanced topics to put WMI into practice. It therefore requires a good basis of WMI and Windows platform experience. Based on what you learn in this first volume, you will see how you can exploit the features of various WMI interfaces to manage the components in a real-world environment. KEY FEATURES: * Learn the WMI Scripting techniques applied to production environments * Understand the full potential of the new Microsoft technologies * Achieve better system management and customize critical operations