Wanting to do something fundamentally different than it’s been done before turned out to be much harder than I ever thought and completely rewarding for you the reader, I hope. You see, there were plenty of books for Windows administrators and plenty of books for people who wanted to script Windows; but no one had really sat down before and written an entire book on Windows administration from the command line that was really focused on administration and not the commands themselves. So I hope the result of all the hard work is that the book you hold in your hands is something unique. This isn’t the kind of command-line book that says “here’s the Edit command; you use this command to do this and this; and here are its parameters.” Sure there’s some of that—as there is any book for administrators—but rather than that being the focus this is a book that uses the command line in the context of everyday administration. It teaches you how to perform the daily administrative procedures and details how those procedures are implemented from the command line. So whether you want to learn how to use the command line to manage daily operations, track Windows performance, view the event logs, partition disks, configure TCP/IP, or perform hundreds of other tasks, this book has the answers.