Book Description
-- Written by Christa Anderson, this comprehensive book covers scripting, automation, Ghost, drive images, RIS, WSH, WMI implications, and ADSI. --Focuses on using automated deployment tools to save time, improve consistency, and greatly reduce deployment costs.


Book Info
Teaches you, step by step all the standard and advanced techniques, and includes hundreds of clear, consistent examples that illustrate these techniques in detail. Intermediate to advanced level. Softcover.


From the Publisher
Renowned Windows 2000 authority Mark Minasi has pulled together some of the brightest lights in the Windows 2000 world to provide focused, in-depth technical solutions to the many challenges associated with administering Windows 2000 in an enterprise setting. In Windows 2000 Automated Deployment and Remote Administration, author Christa Anderson presents lucid explanations of topics from which every Windows 2000 administrator will benefit.. This book is targeted at experienced NT and Windows 2000 administrators who want to learn how to automate tasks that they've been doing by hand, whether those tasks are installing the operating system, pulling information from a remote computer, or resetting someone's password. As Christa puts it, this book is intended to help those who complain that "simple tasks take too freakin' long." --Neil Edde, Associate Publisher


From the Back Cover
Authoritative Answers to All Your Auto Deployment and Remote Administration Questions Help You Reduce Your Administrative Effort This is the most complete, most advanced coverage of Windows 2000's Deployment and Remote Administration capabilities you'll find anywhere. Written by a noted Windows 2000 expert, Windows 2000 Automated Deployment and Remote Administration teaches you, step-by-step, all the standard and advanced techniques, and includes hundreds of clear, consistent examples that illustrate these techniques in detail-so you stay on track and accomplish the bottom-line goal: reduced administration computing. Coverage includes: • Understanding reduced administration concepts • Understanding Windows 2000's management structure • Choosing deployment tools • Assessing deployment strategies • Carrying out unattended installations • Using SysPrep to image existing systems • Using Remote Installation Services • Setting up application deployment • Writing VB scripts that speed and simplify your work • Building Web interfaces for remote administration • Implementing your VB scripts About the Series The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series is designed to equip system administrators with in-depth technical solutions to the many challenges associated with administering Windows 2000 in an enterprise setting. The series editor is leading Windows NT/2000 expert Mark Minasi, who selects the topics and authors and develops and reviews each book to ensure that every entry in the series meets your needs and helps you achieve your goals.


About the Author
Christa Anderson is an independent consultant and frequent industry speaker on Windows NT/2000 issues. She is a Senior Contributing Editor to Windows 2000 Magazine and co-author of Mastering Windows 2000 Server.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book is targeted at experienced NT and Windows 2000 administrators who want to learn how to automate tasks that they've been doing by hand, whether those tasks are installing the operating system, pulling information from a remote computer, or resetting someone's password. As Christa puts it, this book is intended to help those who complain that "simple tasks take too freakin' long."

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