Administration and Management

Writing set-up programs, packaging and deploying components, delivering content, scheduling tasks, and handling network diagnostics are all part of application setup and system administration. Among the topics of discussion are Active Directory, Microsoft Management Console (MMC), System Restore, and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

Microsoft Active Directory is a directory service that provides the foundation for distributed networks built on Microsoft Windows ® 2000 and later domain controllers.

Microsoft Management Console (MMC) minimizes the cost of administering Microsoft Windows-based environments, and provides a simple, consistent, and integrated administration user interface and administration model

System Restore automatically monitors and records key system changes on a user's computer. It is designed to reduce support costs and increase customer satisfaction by enabling a user to undo a change that may have caused a problem with the system, or revert to a day when the system was performing optimally.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a component of the Microsoft Windows operating system that is the Microsoft implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM). WMI uses the Common Information Model (CIM) industry standard to represent systems, applications, networks, devices, and other managed components. You can use WMI to automate administrative tasks in an enterprise environment.

• Directory and Identity Services
• Microsoft Management Console
• PC Health
• Policies and Profiles
• Setup
• System Restore
• Windows Management Instrumentation

• Microsoft Management Console Center
• How the System Restore Tool Handles Hard-Disk Space Usage
• How To: Use the System Restore API to Save and to Restore System Data in Visual C++ .NET
• Support Resources
• Management Technologies Community Center