Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrator's Handbook Book

(NOTE: Each chapter ends with a Conclusion.)

1. Perl and the Admin.

A Note About This Book. Reusing Code. Perl.

Running Perl Scripts from a Command Line. Using Perl over a Network.

Extensions. Consistency. Administration and Computer Languages. Most Useful Extensions.

2. Account Maintenance.

Creating Accounts. Examining Accounts. Disabling Accounts. Deleting Accounts. Last Logon and Logoff. Unlocking Accounts. Expiring Passwords. Renaming Accounts. Privileges.

Displaying Available Privileges. Displaying Who Has a Privilege. Displaying and Modifying User and Group Privileges.

Synchronizing Domain Controllers.

3. Tools.

The File System.

Discovering Shared Directories. Volume Information. Creating Hard File Links. Creating Directories. NTFS Streams. Discovering File Versions.

Permissions.

Displaying Permissions. Displaying Verbose Permissions. Ownership. DCOM Configurations.

Registry.

Regfind. Setting Autologon. TCP/IP Configuration.

4. Crisis Management.

Backing Up and Restoring Network Shares. Backing Up and Restoring User and Machine Accounts.

Backing Up Machine Accounts. Restoring Accounts.

Backing Up and Restoring Permissions. Discovering Open Files. Closing Open Connections. Recovering Documents.

5. Monitoring and Reporting.

Detection. Alerting.

Event Logs. Event Logs and Message Tables.

Event Log Sources. Monitoring.

Monitoring Internal Processes. Monitoring Network Server States. Scanning Event Logs for Errors.

Creating an Alert.

Network Messages. Paging. Email.

6. Logon Scripts.

How Logon Scripts Work. Configuring Logon Scripts. Modifying the User Environment.

Environment Variables. Perl and Environment Variables.

Effectively Processing Logon Scripts.

Unified Logon Scripts. Processing User Groups.

Machine Setup Script.

7. Processes.

Win32 Processes. Creating Processes.

Backticks. Piping (with open()).The system() function. Win32::Spawn(). Win32: Process. Win32::AdminMisc. Forking.

Running Processes as Another User. Enumerating Processes. The PSAPI Library. Killing a Process.

TerminateProcess().kill().

Inheriting File Handles (Pseudo-Forking).

8. Win32 Services.

What Are Win32 Services? Controlling Services.

Lists of Services. Starting, Stopping, Pausing, and Resuming. Service Status.

Creating and Removing Services.

Installing Services. Reconfiguring a Service. Removing Services.

Running Perl Scripts as Win32 Services.

Services Using SRVANY.EXE. Services Using Win32:Daemon.

Issues with Perl-Based Services.

Debugging. Child Processes. Accounts. Obtaining CDO. Installing and Removing the Service. Using the Service.

9. ADSI and WMI.

Active Directory Services Interface.

How Do You Get ADSI? Learning About ADSI. Using ADSI.

The IIS ADSI Provider.

Discovering IIS Properties. Modifying IIS Properties. Displaying an IIS Tree.

Windows Management Instrumentation.

WMI Details. Discovering Disks on Remote Machines. Process Lists. Killing Processes. Creating Remote Processes.

Appendix A. Example Code and Online Book Discussions.

Modules Used in This Book.

Installing Extensions.

Perl Information.

Web Sites. Usenet. List Servers. Electronic Magazines and Journals. Worthwhile Win32 Perl Administration Books.

Index.