Automating Windos Administration [Paperback]

* Covers common administration tasks for Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Internet Information Server (IIS) 4 and 5 and 6, and Windows NT 4, 2000, XP and Windows 2003.

* Extensive examples using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), which provides registry, network/system administrative, and security operations.

* This book is the analog of the tools that were used in our very successful book, ISBN 1590592123 Automating UNIX and Linux Administration (Apress, 2003) for similar tasks.

Author Stein Borge has written a problem and solution-oriented text. In this follow-up edition, he thoroughly explains automating common administrative tasks for all business versions of Windows that rely on the Windows Script Host (WSH).

This book introduces new features of recent WSH versions, then discusses file, shell, and network operations using built-in WSH objects. Also included are lesser-known, but still important additions to WSH and registry operations.

A table of contents is not available for this title.Stein Borge has worked in the IT industry for the last 10 years. He's developed applications using Visual Basic, Access, and SQL Server, and he's developed web applications using ASP. Meanwhile, Borge has also performed Windows NT administrative tasks, including implementing Exchange and IIS servers.

Stein Borge provides a general introduction to new features in recent versions of WSH, and then covers the file, shell and network operations using built-in WSH objects. Borge also provides chapters on lesser-known but important recent additions to WSH of standard input/output streams and regular expressions, as well as covering registry operations using the built-in Shell objects and WMI objects.

Automating Windows Administration is targeted towards administrative and support staff in Microsoft networked environments who desperatell3"