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- Automate Active Directory operations with ADSI
- This TechProGuild solution is being featured on TechRepublic until Aug. 26, 2004. After this date, only TechProGuild members will be able to access this article. Obtain full-time access to this and other time-saving resources and in-depth content by joining TechProGuild today.As most network administrators know, scripting is a powerful tool...
- Tags: Active Directory Service, ADSI, Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, WMI
- Technical articles 2004-08-19
- Build a virtual Active Directory lab with VMware
- This TechProGuild solution is being featured on TechRepublic until July 17, 2004. After this date, only TechProGuild members will be able to access this article. Obtain full-time access to this and other time-saving resources and in-depth content by joining TechProGuild today.In developing a design for a Windows Server 2003 Active...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, domain, forest, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, server, virtual machine, VMware Inc.
- Technical articles 2004-06-17
- Build a virtual Active Directory lab with VMware
- In developing a design for a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory, the Bureau of Technology Services of the City of Portland, Oregon, had a number of questions that the IT staff felt could best be answered by building a working Active Directory lab. Doing so however, would present some logistical...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, domain, forest, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, operating system, server, virtual machine, VMware Inc.
- Technical articles 2004-04-26
- Automate Windows administration with WMI scripting
- Consider this scenario: Your company's configuration standards committee has determined that seven of the Windows XP services that are running by default should be disabled on each workstation on which Windows XP is installed. One of them, they believe, may be a security risk, while the others simply are not...
- Tags: WMI, Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Microsoft Windows, computer, VBS
- Technical articles 2004-04-23
- Automate Windows administration with WMI scripting
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- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, computer, Microsoft Windows, VBS, WMI
- Technical articles 2004-04-16
- Automate Active Directory operations with ADSI
- As most network administrators know, scripting is a powerful tool that can significantly reduce the administrative workload by automating processes that would otherwise demand hours of manual effort. Building on Visual Basic Scripting Editing VBS, for instance, Windows Management Instrumentation WMI can automate literally thousands of operations related to the...
- Tags: ADSI, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, WMI, Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Active Directory Service
- Technical articles 2004-04-01
- Learn how to implement WMI in the Windows enterprise
- One of the great things you can do with WMI scripting is to create a text file with a list of host names that can serve a single script across several machines. This feature can make WMI a powerful tool in the enterprise. In this article, I'll explore this feature...
- Tags: VBS Dictionary, WMI, text-file, Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Microsoft Windows
- Technical articles 2004-03-10
- Delve deeper into WMI scripting for Windows administration
- When managing Windows in the enterprise, it's practically imperative that you take advantage of scripting in order to automate administrative tasks across a large number of client systems.Previously, I introduced the idea of managing resources with scripts using Windows Management Instrumentation WMI. I covered using the tool to bind to...
- Tags: WMI, Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Microsoft Windows, namespace
- Technical articles 2004-02-17
- Step-By-Step: Learn how to transfer and seize FSMO roles in Active Directory
- Windows administrators know that one of the most important aspects involved with managing Active Directory is understanding the various roles that servers need to play. Previously, I discussed the functions of the five flexible single-master operations FSMO roles in Active Directory. Now I'm going to talk about the placement of...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, domain controller, FSMO Roles, Microsoft Windows Active Directory
- Technical articles 2003-10-07
- Get IT Done: Know these five key FSMO roles in Active Directory
- Consider the following scenario: For two years your organization has been operating a Windows 2000 Active Directory with eight domain controllers. Your budget request for replacement of the two oldest servers has been approved, and you have installed the new servers. Once they are up and running, you shut down...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, domain, domain controller, forest, Get IT Done, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, schema, server
- Technical articles 2003-09-16
- Get IT Done: Resources for writing admin scripts
- A lot of excellent references and tutorials are available to help you learn how to write scripts. If you're learning scripting specifically for network administration, however, you should be aware that many resources lean heavily on scripting for the Web. Although the scripting languages may be the same, such as...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Get IT Done, Microsoft JScript, Microsoft Windows, network administration, VBS, Windows Shell, WSH
- Technical articles 2003-07-22
- Build Your Skills: SQL Server survival skills for non-DBAs
- It's not uncommon, especially in smaller organizations, to find network administrators who are responsible for administering Microsoft SQL Server and its databases. The problem is that database administration has very little to do with the role of network administration. Database administration is a highly specialized IT skill that requires training...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, database, Microsoft SQL Server, server
- Technical articles 2003-07-17
- Build Your Skills: Beef up your admin scripts with these tools
- In a previous article, I mentioned IFMEMBER.EXE, a valuable Windows Resource Kit tool you can use to refine login scripts. Microsoft also provides a number of other tools that will help you improve your administration scripts. I'm going to show you where to find these tools and introduce a few...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, command line, tool
- Technical articles 2003-07-15
- Get IT Done: Improve efficiency of administration scripts with programming constructs
- With Windows shell scripting and VBS, you can map network drives, copy files or folders, edit the registry, create shortcuts, and perform a host of other useful network administrative tasks. In my previous articles on scripting concepts, I alluded to some programming constructs that let you extend the functionality of...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Get IT Done, Goto, Microsoft Windows, programming, VBS, Windows Shell
- Technical articles 2003-06-03
- Get IT Done: Improve administration by using the Shell and Network VBS objects
- When you start working with the Windows Scripting Host and VBS scripting, you must understand the concept of objects and methods. Previously, I discussed how to instantiate, or create, an instance of the FileSystemObject object and use it to manipulate the Windows file system. Now, I'm going to discuss two...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Get IT Done, network, Network VBS, WshShell, WshShortcut
- Technical articles 2003-04-22
- Design and document a Win2K infrastructure with this download
- When you’re planning the design of a Windows 2000 network, you need to consider a ton of configuration options—especially when you deploy Active Directory. Keeping these options straight can be challenging. For instance, there are approximately 500 options for creating a single Group Policy Object. Then, of course, you have...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, DHCP, DNS, group policy, Microsoft Windows 2000, WINS
- Technical articles 2003-04-09
- Windows shell scripting can expedite network admin tasks
- Some of the more common Windows scripting languages and platforms include Windows shell scripting, Visual Basic Scripting VBS, and JScript, as I discussed in a previous article. Now we're going to take an in-depth look at Windows shell scripting as it relates to network administration. For the purposes of this...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, logon, Microsoft Windows, NET USE, network, network administration, PERSIST:NO, Windows Shell
- Technical articles 2003-04-02
- How to use Windows shell and the Windows Scripting Host functions
- Scripting can play a valuable, timesaving role in network administration. In my previous article, I discussed the benefits of using scripts and various ways they're used. Now we will take a look at some of the choices you have in scripting languages and platforms.You can think of a scripting platform...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Microsoft Windows, shell, Windows Shell, WSH
- Technical articles 2003-03-18
- Understand the role of scripting in network administration
- Network administrators have used scripting since long before Windows or even DOS came on the scene. UNIX administrators, for instance, have been using shell scripting and its powerful capabilities for decades. Scripting can significantly ease the burden of network administration. But learning to create useful and effective scripts for networking...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, Microsoft Windows, network, network administration
- Technical articles 2003-03-06
- Configure IT Quick: Configure client-server connectivity with the ODBC Data Source Administrator
- The ODBC Data Source Administrator, found in the Administrative Tools of Windows 2000/XP Professional, is a multipurpose tool for providing connectivity to one or more databases. ODBC stands for Open Database Connectivity, a Microsoft API that allows connectivity to a database using specific drivers. Each type of database, such as...
- Tags: Allen V. Rouse MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA, client-server, data source, information technology, ODBC
- Technical articles 2003-02-18
