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

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.

Contents

• Introduction

• Chapter 1 Introducing Reduced Administration
• Chapter 2 The Remote Administration/Automated Deployment Toolkit

• Chapter 3 Overview of Deployment Strategies
• Chapter 4 Unattended Installations
• Chapter 5 Using Sysprep
• Chapter 6 Using Remote Installation Services
• Chapter 7 Application Deployment with Intellimirror

• Chapter 8 Core Scripting Concepts
• Chapter 9 Functions in VBScript 9
• Chapter 10 Scripting with Objects
• Chapter 11 Win2K's Management Architecture: Scripting with WMI and ADSI
• Chapter 12 Rounding Off Scripting
• Index