Windows Server 2003 Command-Line Tools.ppt

Windows Server 2003 Command-Line Tools Robbie Allen Cisco Systems Agenda Why Use Command-Line Tools? Microsoft Command-Line Tool Resources Other Command-Line Tool Resources Q/A Why Use a Command-Line over a GUI? 1. Faster than the clickity-click counterpart View the network configuration: ipconfig /all Find all VBScript files in the path: where *.vbs Append a “1” to every file in the current directory: forfiles -p.\ -v -ccmd /c if not @ISDIR==TRUE ren @FILE @FNAME_WITHOUT_EXT1.@EXT Why Use a Command-Line over a GUI? 2. In some cases you don’t have a choice Create an entry in an Event Log eventcreate /L Application /T Error /ID 777 /D Error Will Robinson Redirect the default AD computers container to an alternate location redircmp “ou=MyComputers,dc=rallencorp,dc=com” Diagnose AD DNS configuration issues dnslint /ad /s localhost /v Why Use a Command-Line over a GUI? 3. Enhances your remote management capabilities Many of the new tools have a /S option for targeting a remote machine systeminfo /S rallen-srv1 With Sysinternals psexec you can even run non-remoteable utilities remotely psexec \\rallen-srv1 cmd /k dir c:\ Why Use a Command-Line over a GUI? 4. Enables you to automate common/complex tasks Simple batch scripts just contain commands to run in sequence Disable all inactive computer accounts and send the results in an email (2 commands) oldcmp -report -file inactive.html -disable -b cn=computers,dc=rallencorp,dc=com“ blat inactive.html -to rallen@ -html Microsoft Command-Line Tool Resources Windows Server 2003 Windows Resource Kit Windows Support Tools Downloadable Tools SFU 3.5 Whats New in Windows Server 2003%windir%\Help\ntcmds.chm systeminfo – Displays detailed configuration information about a computer and its operating system wmic – Extremely powerful command-line interface into WMI dsadd / dsmod / dsrm / dsget / dsquery / dsmove – Set of command-line tools for querying and modifying Active Directory netsh – Query network configuration, perform d