How to Cheat at Windows System Administration Using Command Line Scripts

By: Pawan K Bhardwaj

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How to Cheat at Windows Systems Administrators using Command Line Scripts teaches system administrators hundreds of powerful, time-saving tips for automating daily system administration tasks using Windows command line scripts.

With every new version of Windows, Microsoft is trying to ease the administration jobs by adding more and more layers of graphical user interface (GUI) or configuration wizards (dialog boxes). While these 'wizards' are interactive and make the administrator's job easier, they are not always the most convenient and efficient way to accomplish the everyday administration tasks. These wizards are time consuming and, at times, may seem a bit confusing. The purpose of the book is to teach administrators how to use command-line scripts to complete everyday administration jobs, solve recurring network problems and at the same time improve their efficiency.

Provides system administrators with hundreds of tips, tricks, and scripts to complete administration tasks more quickly and efficiently.
No direct competition for a core tool for Windows administrators.
Builds on success of other books in the series including How to Cheat at Managing Windows Small Business Server 2003 and How to Cheat at Managing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.

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Introduction	p. xv
Getting Started with Command Line	p. 1
Basics of the Command Line	p. 3
Introduction	p. 4
Basics of the Windows Command Shell	p. 4
The MS-DOS Command Shell	p. 5
Starting the Windows Command Shell	p. 5
Customizing the Command Shell Startup	p. 6
Customizing the Command Shell Window	p. 9
Internal Commands for the Command Shell	p. 13
Getting Help for Commands	p. 17
Command History	p. 17
Displaying Previous Commands with Arrow Keys	p. 18
Viewing the Command History in a Pop-Up Window	p. 18
Using Function Keys	p. 18
Accessing the Windows Command Reference	p. 19
Installing Windows Support Tools	p. 20
Summary	p. 23
Using Batch Files	p. 25
Introduction	p. 26
Working Safely with the Command Line	p. 26
Configuring the Command Path	p. 28
Using the Path Command	p. 29
Using the Set and Setx Commands	p. 30
Changing Environment Variables in System Properties	p. 31
Using Command Redirection	p. 33
Command Redirection Operators	p. 33
Input Redirection	p. 34
Output Redirection	p. 34
Redirecting Output to Other Commands	p. 35
Error Handling with Redirection Operators	p. 36
Using Groups of Commands	p. 37
Using & for Sequential Processing	p. 37
Using && and for Conditional Processing	p. 37
Grouping Sets of Commands with Parentheses	p. 38
Creating Batch Files	p. 38
Batch File Commands	p. 39
Batch File Parameters	p. 53
Summary	p. 55
Managing Scheduled Tasks	p. 57
Introduction	p. 58
Scheduling Tasks	p. 58
The Task Scheduler	p. 58
The Task Scheduler Service	p. 59
Accessing the Task Scheduler Service	p. 60
Configuring the Properties of the Task Scheduler Service	p. 62
Managing Tasks Using the Task Scheduler	p. 64
Managing the Properties of Scheduled Tasks	p. 65
Monitoring Tasks in the Scheduled Tasks Window	p. 68
Creating New Tasks	p. 69
Deleting a Scheduled Task	p. 73
Running a Scheduled Task Immediately	p. 73
Enabling or Disabling a Scheduled Task	p. 74
Ending a Running Task	p. 74
Event-Based Tasks	p. 74
The schtasks Command-Line Utility	p. 75
Creating and Running Tasks Using schtasks /Create	p. 76
Managing Tasks with schtasks	p. 86
Using schtasks /Query to Query a Scheduled Task	p. 86
Modifying a Scheduled Task with schtasks /Change	p. 89
Running a Scheduled Task with schtasks /Run	p. 91
Ending Running Tasks with schtasks /End	p. 92
Deleting Scheduled Tasks with schtasks /Delete	p. 93
Summary	p. 94
Basic Windows Administration	p. 95
Managing Files and Directories	p. 97
Introduction	p. 98
Using Wildcards in Commands	p. 98
File and Folder Attributes	p. 99
Viewing Attributes	p. 100
Changing Attributes	p. 101
Basic File and Folder Operations	p. 101
Copying Files with the Copy Command	p. 102
Copying Files and Directories with the Xcopy Command	p. 106
Renaming Files with the Rename (Ren) Command	p. 113
Moving Files Using the Move Command	p. 113
Deleting Files with the Del (Erase) Command	p. 115
Comparing Files with the Comp Command	p. 116
Comparing Files with the FC Command	p. 118
Sorting Files with the Sort Command	p. 121
Recovering Files with the Recover Command	p. 123
Decompressing Files with the Expand Command	p. 123
Duplicating and Comparing Disks	p. 125
Duplicating Disks with the Diskcopy Command	p. 125
Comparing Two Disks with the Diskcomp Command	p. 127
Directory-Specific Commands	p. 129
Displaying the Directory Structure (Tree)	p. 129
Creating a New Directory with MD or Mkdir	p. 130
Removing a Directory with RD or Rmdir	p. 131
Removing a Directory Tree with the Deltree Command	p. 133
Summary	p. 134
Maintaining Hard Disks	p. 135
Introduction	p. 136
Physical and Logical Disks	p. 136
Physical Disks	p. 136
Logical Disks	p. 136
Understanding Basic and Dynamic Disks	p. 136
Basic Disks	p. 137
Dynamic Disks	p. 138
Tasks Common to Basic and Dynamic Disks	p. 140
Supported File Systems	p. 140
Formatting a Disk or Partition with the Format Command	p. 141
Converting File Systems	p. 145
Converting a File System with the Convert Command	p. 147
Examining Volume Serial Numbers with the Vol Command	p. 148
Managing Volume Labels with the Label Command	p. 149
Maintaining Disks and File Systems	p. 150
Using the Fsutil Utility for Advanced Disk Management	p. 151
Checking Available Disk Space with the Freedisk Command	p. 156
Saving Disk Space with the Compact Command	p. 157
Managing Mounted Volumes with the Mountvol Command	p. 160
Checking and Fixing Bad Sectors with the Chkdsk Command	p. 161
Defragmenting Disks with the Defrag Command	p. 165
Checking Autocheck Status with the Chkntfs Command	p. 168
Summary	p. 170
Managing Hard Disks with the Diskpart Utility	p. 171
Introduction	p. 172
The Diskpart Utility	p. 172
The Object in Focus	p. 172
Diskpart Commands	p. 174
Scripting with Diskpart	p. 191
Diskpart Error Codes	p. 192
Obtaining Volume Information	p. 194
Understanding Volume Status	p. 195
Managing Dynamic Volumes	p. 197
Simple Volumes	p. 197
Striped Volumes	p. 198
Managing Fault-Tolerant Volumes	p. 198
Mirrored Volumes	p. 199
RAID 5 Volumes	p. 200
Summary	p. 201
Managing Windows Systems and Printers	p. 203
System Services, Drivers, and the Registry	p. 205
Introduction	p. 206
Obtaining System Information	p. 206
Determining the Operating System Version	p. 206
Locating Files with the Where Command	p. 207
Checking the System Date and Time	p. 209
Obtaining Information on the Logged-On User	p. 211
Obtaining System Configuration Information	p. 213
Checking Protected System Files with the SFC Command	p. 214
Shutting Down and Restarting the System	p. 216
Specifying Reasons for the Event Tracker	p. 217
Using the Shutdown Command on the Local Computer	p. 218
Using the Shutdown Command on the Remote Computer	p. 218
Differences between the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Shutdown Commands	p. 220
Managing System Services	p. 221
Obtaining Information about Services	p. 222
Starting, Stopping, Pausing, and Resuming Services	p. 225
Configuring a Service's Startup Type	p. 225
Managing Service Failures	p. 226
Configuring the Service Logon Type	p. 228
SC Subcommands That Affect All Services	p. 229
Obtaining Driver Information	p. 230
Managing the Windows Registry	p. 232
Data Types Supported in the Windows Registry	p. 234
Examining Values Stored in a Subkey	p. 235
Comparing Subkeys	p. 236
Adding and Deleting Subkeys	p. 237
Saving and Restoring Registry Keys	p. 238
Copying Registry Keys	p. 239
Summary	p. 240
Monitoring System Events, Processes, and Performance	p. 241
Introduction	p. 242
Managing Event Logs from the Command Line	p. 242
Creating New Events	p. 243
Working with Event Triggers	p. 244
Viewing Logged Events	p. 249
Using Filters to View Specific Events	p. 251
Monitoring Application Processes and Tasks	p. 254
Viewing Running Processes and Applications	p. 254
Terminating Applications and Processes	p. 261
Using Filters with the TaskList and TaskKill Commands	p. 263
Working with System Performance	p. 265
Viewing Performance Data	p. 265
Adding New Performance Counters	p. 269
Removing Performance Counters	p. 270
Extracting Performance Counters from Existing Logs	p. 270
Summary	p. 272
Managing Printing Services	p. 273
Introduction	p. 274
Working with Printer Commands	p. 274
Working with Remote Computers	p. 275
Installing a Local Printer	p. 275
Listing All Printers Installed on a Computer	p. 276
Adding a Local Printer	p. 277
Deleting an Installed Printer	p. 278
Displaying All Printers Configured on a Computer	p. 279
Displaying the Default Printer	p. 279
Setting the Default Printer	p. 280
Configuring and Renaming Printers	p. 280
Displaying the Printer Configuration	p. 281
Configuring Printer Properties	p. 282
Renaming a Printer	p. 289
Managing Printer Drivers	p. 290
Displaying Driver Information for All Printers on a Computer	p. 290
Installing a Printer Driver	p. 292
Deleting a Printer Driver	p. 293
Deleting All Printer Drivers from a Computer	p. 294
Creating and Configuring TCP/IP Printer Ports	p. 294
Viewing TCP/IP Printing Ports Configured on a Computer	p. 294
Creating and Configuring a Standard TCP/IP Printing Port	p. 296
Deleting a Standard TCP/IP Printing Port	p. 298
Managing Print Queues and Print Jobs	p. 298
Printing a Test Page	p. 299
Pausing and Resuming a Printer	p. 299
Canceling All Print Jobs in the Print Spooler	p. 300
Listing All the Print Jobs in a Print Queue	p. 300
Pausing, Resuming, and Canceling a Print Job	p. 301
Summary	p. 303
Working with Active Directory	p. 305
Overview of Directory Services Commands	p. 307
Introduction	p. 308
Getting Started with DS Commands	p. 308
Types of Objects for DS Commands	p. 309
Working on Remote Computers	p. 310
Querying the Directory Database with DSQuery	p. 311
Parameters Common to All DSQuery Commands	p. 312
DSQuery Computer	p. 313
DSQuery Contact	p. 314
DSQuery Group	p. 314
DSQuery OU	p. 314
DSQuery Site	p. 315
DSQuery Server	p. 315
DSQuery User	p. 316
DSQuery Quota	p. 318
DSQuery Partition	p. 319
DSQuery *	p. 319
Adding New Objects with DSAdd	p. 321
Parameters Common to All DSAdd Commands	p. 321
DSAdd Computer	p. 322
DSAdd Contact	p. 323
DSAdd Group	p. 324
DSAdd OU	p. 325
DSAdd User	p. 326
DSAdd Quota	p. 328
Displaying Object Properties with DSGet	p. 329
Parameters Common to All DSGet Commands	p. 329
DSGet Computer	p. 331
DSGet Contact	p. 332
DSGet Group	p. 332
DSGet OU	p. 333
DSGet Server	p. 333
DSGet User	p. 334
DSGet Subnet	p. 335
DSGet Site	p. 335
DSGet Quota	p. 336
DSGet Partition	p. 336
Modifying Objects with DSMod	p. 337
DSMod Computer	p. 338
DSMod Contact	p. 338
DSMod Group	p. 339
DSMod OU	p. 339
DSMod Server	p. 340
DSMod User	p. 340
DSMod Quota	p. 340
DSMod Partition	p. 341
Moving and Renaming Objects with DSMove	p. 341
Deleting Directory Objects with DSRm	p. 342
Summary	p. 344
Managing Active Directory Users, Groups, and Computers	p. 345
Introduction	p. 346
Managing User Accounts	p. 346
Searching for Users in Active Directory	p. 348
Searching for Disabled User Accounts	p. 350
Determining Group Memberships of Users	p. 351
Creating New User Accounts	p. 352
Setting and Modifying User Account Properties	p. 353
Moving and Renaming User Accounts	p. 354
Resetting User Passwords	p. 356
Enabling and Disabling User Accounts	p. 357
Deleting User Accounts	p. 358
Managing Group Accounts	p. 359
Searching for Group Accounts in Active Directory	p. 360
Creating New Group Accounts	p. 361
Managing Membership of Groups	p. 361
Modifying Group Account Properties	p. 362
Moving and Renaming Group Accounts	p. 364
Deleting Group Accounts	p. 365
Managing Computer Accounts	p. 365
Searching for Computer Accounts in Active Directory	p. 365
Creating New Computer Accounts	p. 366
Managing Properties of Computer Accounts	p. 367
Resetting Computer Accounts	p. 367
Moving and Renaming Computer Accounts	p. 368
Enabling and Disabling Computer Accounts	p. 369
Deleting Computer Accounts	p. 370
Managing Domain Controller Accounts	p. 370
Searching for Domain Controllers in Active Directory	p. 370
Searching for Domain Controllers with an Operations Master Roles	p. 371
Searching for GC Servers	p. 372
Managing Roles of GC Servers	p. 373
Summary	p. 374
Windows Networking	p. 375
Basic TCP/IP Networking Commands	p. 377
Introduction	p. 378
Overview of the Net Commands	p. 378
Starting and Stopping TCP/IP Services	p. 380
Troubleshooting Commands for TCP/IP	p. 385
Arp	p. 385
IPConfig	p. 386
Finger	p. 389
Getmac	p. 390
Hostname	p. 391
Netstat	p. 392
NBTStat	p. 396
NSLookup	p. 398
Pathping	p. 400
Ping	p. 402
Commands for Remote Computers	p. 404
FTP	p. 404
TFTP	p. 406
RCP	p. 407
RSH and REXEC	p. 408
LPR	p. 409
LPQ	p. 409
Summary	p. 410
Administering Network Services	p. 411
Introduction	p. 412
Overview of the NETSH Commands	p. 412
Commands Available within the NETSH Prompt	p. 412
List of Subcommands Available within the NETSH Prompt	p. 413
NETSH Commands for Troubleshooting	p. 417
Using Ping to Verify Connectivity	p. 418
Managing Interfaces with NETSH	p. 422
Managing IP Addressing	p. 422
Managing the DNS Settings of an Interface	p. 428
Managing Interface IP WINS Settings	p. 430
Managing Automatic Addressing Using DHCP Services	p. 434
NETSH DHCP	p. 434
NETSH DHCP Server	p. 437
NETSH DHCP Server Scope	p. 438
NETSH Commands for AAAA	p. 439
Summary	p. 442
MS-DOS Commands Not Supported in Windows XP and Windows 2003	p. 443
Introduction	p. 443
MS-DOS Commands Not Supported in Windows XP/2003 32-Bit Operating Systems	p. 443
assign	p. 443
backup	p. 444
choice	p. 445
ctty	p. 445
deltree	p. 446
emm386	p. 446
fdisk	p. 447
mscdex	p. 447
scandisk	p. 448
Smartdrv	p. 448
sys	p. 449
MS-DOS Commands Not Supported in Windows XP/2003 64-Bit Operating Systems	p. 450
debug	p. 450
edit	p. 450
edlin	p. 451
exe2bin	p. 451
expand	p. 451
fasthelp	p. 452
fastopen	p. 452
forcedos	p. 453
graphics	p. 453
loadfix	p. 454
loadhigh	p. 454
mem	p. 455
nlsfunc	p. 455
setver	p. 456
share	p. 456
Index	p. 457
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