By Alain Lissoir, 01/13/2005
Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional give you command-line tools that make performing repetitive tasks a lot easier. Here's a sampling of these tools.
By Alain Lissoir, 12/13/2004
Creating production-quality WSH scripts requires security considerations. You can protect your passwords by prompting users for passwords, encoding scripts, or running scripts as ...
By Alain Lissoir, 09/13/2004
Six new tools let you work from the command line to add, query, move, and remove AD objects.
By Alain Lissoir, 07/12/2004
You can use WMI to remotely view and manage IP routing tables on your Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP systems.
By Alain Lissoir, 06/14/2004
You can use this XP feature to create and manage system checkpoints that reduce the risk involved in system updates.
By Alain Lissoir, 05/10/2004
Microsoft's newest OSs offer more WMI providers, classes, and properties to provide system information. Learn how to use the clock provider, power management provider, and other ...
By Alain Lissoir, 04/12/2004
Learn how to use WMI to monitor modifications to the five FSMO roles
By Alain Lissoir, 03/15/2004
Learn how to use WMI to monitor AD group modifications.
By Alain Lissoir, 02/24/2004
Find out how Windows 2003 simplifies the complicated process of deactivating AD schema extensions.
By Alain Lissoir, 02/24/2004
There are three possible reasons for deactivating a schema extension. Decide which applies before you begin deactivation.
By Alain Lissoir, 01/27/2004
Deploy and control Windows 2003 and Win2K servers with ADS.
By Alain Lissoir, 01/27/2004
ADS uses XML-based sequence files to carry out common deployment or administrative jobs.
By Alain Lissoir, 01/27/2004
Define device variables to personalize deployed images.
By Alain Lissoir, 01/26/2004
This final installment of a three-part series looks at how to use Exchange 2003’s new WMI providers and their classes to manage Exchange queues and links.
By Alain Lissoir, 01/12/2004
The Trustmon WMI provider, new in Windows 2003, lets you retrieve trust information and monitor trusts. The WMITrust script exploits the Trustmon classes.
By Alain Lissoir, 12/22/2003
This second installment of a three-part series looks at how to use Exchange 2003’s new WMI providers and their classes to manage Exchange public folders.
By Alain Lissoir, 12/08/2003
WMIADRepl.wsf supports all the features exposed by the AD replication WMI classes to help you manage AD replication.
By Alain Lissoir, 11/24/2003
Exchange 2003 offers several new WMI providers. This first installment of a three-part series looks at how to use the providers to manage Exchange servers, logons, and mailboxes.
By Alain Lissoir, 11/03/2003
Windows 2003 has a lockdown mechanism to secure WMI asynchronous operations, doesn’t let you set the SD on a CIM repository namespace to Null, and removes the ADSI-WMI extension.
By Alain Lissoir, 03/24/2003
Learn about a small but extremely useful CDOEXM enhancement in Exchange 2000 SP2 that will help you manage mailbox security.