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Understanding WMI Scripting: Exploiting Microsoft's Windows Management Instrumentation in Mission-Critical Computing Infrastructures

Lissoir, Alain

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Understanding WMI Scriptingiii
  • Copyright Pageiv
  • Contentsvii
  • Forewordxiii
  • Prefacexv
  • Acknowledgmentsxix
  • List of Figuresxxv
  • List of Samplesxxxi
  • List of Tablesxxxix
  • Chapter 1. Windows Script Host1
  • 1.1 Objective1
  • 1.2 Some scripting history1
  • 1.3 What is Windows Script Host?5
  • 1.4 The run-time parameters9
  • 1.5 Windows Script Host Object Model11
  • 1.6 Features coming from the WSH COM components23
  • 1.7 Features coming from the use of XML in WSH48
  • 1.8 Controlling the WSH script execution79
  • 1.9 Encrypting WSH script code110
  • 1.10 Debugging WSH scripts114
  • 1.11 Summary116
  • 1.12 Useful Internet URLs117
  • Chapter 2. Starting with WMI119
  • 2.1 Objective119
  • 2.2 What is the DMTF?119
  • 2.3 What is WBEM?122
  • 2.4 What is CIM?123
  • 2.5 What is a MOF file?144
  • 2.6 What is xmlCIM?151
  • 2.7 The supported platforms151
  • 2.8 The Microsoft CIM implementation: WMI153
  • 2.9 Let's be more practical185
  • 2.10 Summary205
  • 2.11 Useful Internet URLs206
  • Chapter 3.The WMI Query Language207
  • 3.1 Objective207
  • 3.2 The WMI query language207
  • 3.3 Extended WQL265
  • 3.4 Summary266
  • Chapter 4. Scripting with WMI267
  • 4.1 Objective267
  • 4.2 The WMI object path268
  • 4.3 The WMI moniker269
  • 4.4 Exploring the WMI scripting API286
  • 4.5 Browsing the namespaces in the CIM repository355
  • 4.6 A script to explore the CIM repository364
  • 4.7 Summary379
  • Chapter 5.Advanced WMI Scripting Techniques381
  • 5. I Objective381
  • 5.2 Working with CIM instances asynchronously381
  • 5.3 Error handling with WMI scripting406
  • 5.4 WMI DateTime Helper430
  • 5.5 WMI extension for ADSI437
  • 5.6 Representing WMI data in XML447
  • 5.7 Detecting changes with the Refresher object452
  • 5.8 Summary460
  • Chapter 6. The WMI Events Scripting461
  • 6.1 Objective461
  • 6.2 Event notification461
  • 6.3 Using the permanent event consumers491
  • 6.4 The permanent consumer registrations in the CIM repository508
  • 6.5 Scripting temporary event consumers510
  • 6.6 Going further with event scripting524
  • 6.7 Summary554
  • 6.8 What's next?554
  • 6.9 Useful Internet URLs555
  • Index557
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9781555582661
  • ISBN-13 9780080520100
  • Author Lissoir, Alain
  • Category Computers
  • Subject General

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Understanding WMI Scripting explains to Windows and Exchange Administrators how they can use the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scriptable technology available in these products to ease their day-to-day management tasks. Under Windows.NET and Exchange 2000 (SP2), Microsoft is making solid enhancements in WMI. This will dramatically extend the scripting and manageability capabilities of Windows and Exchange. Illustrated with more than three hundred samples, the book links practical problems encountered by administrators to applicable scriptable solutions. Lissoir focuses not on MI programming aspects for developers but on how administrators can use what is available in Windows and Exchange for their admin work. WMI is a very important topic under Windows.NET and Exchange 2000 (SP2), so this book provides real added value to Windows/Exchange administrators. Although Exchange relies on Windows, no other book combines coverage of Windows and Exchange.

· Fine tune management of Windows servers
· Achieve better system management and customize critical operations
· Access hundreds of usable scripts in book and downloadable from web