Chapter 5. Managing Windows Systems

Your job as an administrator is to plan, organize, and track the details that keep the network running. If you're to survive without just muddling through, you need to learn how to do those jobs quickly and efficiently. Fortunately, Windows supplies plenty of command-line tools to help you with these tasks, and this chapter discusses some of the more important tools for daily systems management.

Examining System Information

Often when you are working with a user's computer or a remote server, you'll want to examine some basic system information, such as who is logged on, the current system time, or the location of a certain file. Commands that help you gather basic system information include the following:

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