Microsoft Windows Scripting with WMI: Self-Paced Learning Guide

by Ed Wilson (Author)

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Go beyond simple queries and get the inside track on how to write system administration scripts with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)—straight from a Microsoft scripting expert. With labs and lessons you complete at your own pace, this definitive tutorial helps you build your scripting expertise and provides the professional guidance you need to automate Windows administrative tasks.

Teach yourself how to write and run scripts to:

Configure WMI—without editing the registry
Audit and inventory software on local or remote desktops and servers
Manage system components, including keyboards, motherboards, disk drives, and printers
Monitor and report on real-time changes in system performance and respond to critical events
Configure network components
Test security access rights and make changes to one or multiple systems

And learn how to:

Test, diagnose, and resolve errors with WMI
Back-up and restore the registry
PLUS—Get more than 900 script samples that you can use to help simply the management of your system resources

CD-ROM features:

More than 900 sample scripts to adapt for your own work
Time-saving scripting tools—including Script-o-Matic 2.0 and WMIcheck
Fully searchable eBook

For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

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The definitive self-paced tutorial for WMI scripting, featuring 140 script samples, timesaving scripting tools, and 500+ bonus scripts on the CD.

Key Book Benefits:

Delivers hundreds of WMI scripts that administrators can put to work right away. Covers WMI in depth, so you can learn how to manage all aspects of your Windows environment. Features hands-on labs and quizzes to help you assess your progress as you learn. Includes a bonus eBookMicrosoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guidein PDF format.

About the Author

Ed Wilson is a well-known scripting expert who delivers popular scripting workshops to Microsoft customers and employees worldwide. He's written several books on Windows scripting, including Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices, Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step, and Microsoft VBScript Step by Step. Ed is a senior consultant at Microsoft Corporation and writes Hey, Scripting Guy!, one of the most popular TechNet blogs.

Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 5, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735622310
ISBN-13: 978-0735622319
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,948,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #379 in Visual Basic Programming (Books)
- #396 in Windows Server Guides
- #1404 in Computer Operating Systems (Books)

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OK for reference material but not a guide

July 27, 2017

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Some of the lessons are a bit confusing and not explained as well as I had hoped. Decent reference material

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Mario R. Hernandez

Three Stars

January 18, 2015

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Good product

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Nick Skaflen

very good generalization

March 28, 2013

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the down side of the book is that it addresses lots of different vehicles. And the specific models are not covered individually, so the general concepts are there but there is difficulty finding exactly what you're trying to fix.

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R. Harmon

Good information

March 19, 2006

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This book had everything I was looking for and is a good source of information.

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Georges M

A book for IT PROs

May 1, 2007

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What a great book! I resolved a complex problem I had in less than 12 lines of code when I discovered the power of Associators on page 83. I have been using consumer events in other languages for many years, until I read Ed's book, I had no idea they could be used with WMI. This book is a very nice complement to chapters 8, 9 and 10 from his Microsoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide.

Although Ed's book is not a technical reference book (MSDN already provides syntax information), the appendixes provide all the key information required to search MSDN, SDK, CIM studio and other tools presented in the book. Rather than being focused on syntax and formal grammar, Ed's approach is to show IT PROs how to use WMI to resolve real life problems that need to be addressed on a daily basis. The CD contains many scripts that can be put to work with no or little modifications for your environment.

Ed's book goes further. It has a complete chapter on configuring and administering WMI, material which is typically not found in manuals but that are key for understanding and working with WMI.

Being a consultant, I consult the printed book on a regular basis and I have a copy of the electronic version on my laptop.

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Leo

Finally an excellent, well written indpeth wmi book

May 5, 2006

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Over the years, I have purchased at least 5 wmi books. These books fall into two categories: the ones that never seem to go beyond the basics of running simple wmi queries, and those that are so far advanced, as to be virtually meaningless to a mere mortal. Now comes this book. This book is well written, with loads of analogies. It breaks the subject of WMI in to small enough chunks of information (each chapter is around 25 pages or so) so you can sit down read the book, and then do re-inforce the material by doing the labs. The fact that the person who wrote the book is a consultant, means the labs have real world application. I have taken many of the scripts from the book, and with only a few small changes, made them perform usefull work for me on my network. High points of the book: excellent coverage of WMI event driven scripts, and associators of type of queries. This has open new horizons for my scripts. Low points of the book: the labs for chapter one are lame ... I do not get this one. Every other chapter has awesome labs, but somehow chapter one kind of missed out. There are labs for chapter one, they just are not all that interesting. Would I buy this book again? You bet. In fact, I purchased 10 copies for the other network administrators at my company! I liked it that well.

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J. Carroll

Stongly advise against this book

July 6, 2006

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I don't like being so harsh, but I strongly advise you NOT purchase this book. My reason for this is the poor coverage of the material presented.

The first three chapters were fine. The author was building logically, presenting material in a logical fashion. He demonstrated some simple queries, and described them clearly. The examples were pretty basic, and served no signifcant purpose.

Chapter 4 is where the wheels started to come off (and continued through to chapter 6). With no explanation, or background material, terms and undocumented examples began to show up everywhere. By the time the author got to event queries, it was obvious this was a lost cause.

For example, page 70 of the book used an query example that included the additional clause "WITHIN 10". I skipped around through pages, checked the indexed (and non existant glossary), but couldn't find an explanation. Eventually a check of MSDN explained what it was.

The section describing 'associators' on page 83 and 'references of' on page 85 were ambigious. The code examples provided no clarity, nor explanation.

I'm an experienced developer and administrator with 17 years in system's level programming. I had picked up this book to help get my hands around the topic of WMI -- to assist our administrative staff managing DFS-Replication services.

After two days, I've given up on the text, and purchased another more substantive manual "Developing WMI Solutions: A Guide to Windows Management Instrumentation".

BTW: So as not to completely trash this book, it does provide an excellant CD. There are a terrific number of tools, sample source code and script templates. In addition, the CD includes an electronic version of the book, and an electronic copy of "Microsoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide". Also, the later chapters develop some more useful scripts. If you need a cook-book to drop in one of these, you may find it useful.

In my advice, you'd be better off purchasing something else.

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Its all good

January 9, 2007

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They were real good at keeping me up to date on the shipment and it arrived on time.

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