New command-line tools
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
New command-line tools
The following table lists the new Windows Server 2003 family command-line tools.
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Prepares Windows 2000 domains and forests for an upgrade to Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition; or Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition. |
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Configures, queries, or changes Boot.ini file settings. |
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Prompts the user to make a choice in a batch program by displaying a prompt and pausing for the user to choose from a set of user-option keys. |
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Redirects command output from the command line to the Clipboard. |
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Creates, lists, and deletes stored user names and passwords or credentials. |
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Locates and consolidates fragmented boot files, data files, and folders on local volumes. |
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Manages disks, partitions, or volumes. |
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Queries for a list of drivers and driver properties. |
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Adds a computer, contact, group, organization unit, or user to a directory. |
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Displays selected attributes of a computer, contact, group, organizational unit, server or user in a directory. |
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Modifies an existing user, computer, contact, group or organizational units in a directory. |
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Moves any object from its current location in the directory to a new location, as long as the move can be accommodated within a single domain controller, and renames an object without moving it in the directory tree. |
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Queries and finds a list of computers, groups, organizational units, servers, or users in the directory by using specified search criterion. |
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Deletes an object of a specific type or any general object from the directory. |
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Enables an administrator to create a custom event in a specified event log. |
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Lists the events and event properties from one or more event logs. |
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Displays and configures event triggers on local or remote machines. |
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Expands one or more compressed files. |
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Selects files in a folder or tree for batch processing. |
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Checks for available disk space before continuing with an installation process. |
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Manages reparse points, managing sparse files, dismounting a volume, or extending a volume. |
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Obtains the media access control (MAC) address and list of network protocols. |
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Sets the system environment variable %ERRORLEVEL% to the value associated with the specified Windowsoperating system. |
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Displays Group Policy settings and Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) for a user or a computer. |
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Starts Help and Support Center. |
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Reports the process identifiers (PIDs) of currently running W3pwp.exe processes serving a particular application pool. |
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Creates and manages backup copies of the Internet Information Services (IIS) configuration (metabase and schema) of a remote or local computer. |
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Imports and exports all or selected parts of the configuration of Internet Information Services (IIS) on a local or remote computer. |
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Configures and manages Web service extensions, applications, and individual files on servers running Windows Server 2003 with Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. |
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Creates, deletes, and lists FTP sites on servers that are running Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. Also, starts, stops, pauses, and continues FTP sites. |
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Creates and deletes virtual directories of FTP sites on servers that are running Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. |
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Creates and deletes virtual directories of Web sites on servers that are running Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. |
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Creates, deletes, and lists Web sites on servers that are running Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. Also, starts, stops, pauses, and continues the Web sites. |
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Replaces locked operating system files. |
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Manages and schedules performance counter and event trace log collections on local and remote systems. |
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Replaces Wlbs.exe for managing and controlling network load balancing operations. |
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Configures and manages Network Load Balancing clusters and all cluster hosts from a single computer. |
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Queries, displays, or disconnects open files. |
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Displays and configures the paging file Virtual Memory settings of a system. |
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Enables you to open a Performance console configured with settings files from Windows NT 4.0 version of Performance Monitor. |
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Configures or displays configuration information about a printer. |
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Adds, deletes, and lists printer drivers from local or remote print servers. |
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Pauses, resumes, cancels, and lists print jobs. |
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Adds, deletes, and lists printers or printer connections, in addition to setting and displaying the default printer. |
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Creates, deletes, and lists standard TCP/IP printer ports, in addition to displaying and changing port configuration. |
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Prints a test page, pauses or resumes a printer, and clears a printer queue. |
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Extracts performance counters from performance counter logs into other formats, such as text-TSV (for tab-delimited text), text-CSV (for comma-delimited text), binary-BIN, or SQL. |
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Enables Remote Storage, which is used for extending server disk space. |
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Retrieves and sets information about services. Tests and debugs service programs. |
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Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time. Adds and removes tasks from the schedule, starts and stops tasks on demand, and displays and changes scheduled tasks. |
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Sets environment variables in the local or system environment, without requiring programming or scripting. |
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Shuts down or restarts a local or remote computer. |
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Queries the system for basic system configuration information. |
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Allows an administrator to recover access to a file that previously was denied by making the administrator the owner of the file. |
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Ends one or more tasks or processes. |
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Displays a list of applications, services, and the Process ID (PID) currently running on either a local or a remote computer. |
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Pauses the command processor for the specified number of seconds. |
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Processes event trace logs or real-time data from instrumented event trace providers and allows you to generate trace analysis reports and comma-separated value files (.csv) for the events generated. |
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Imports assignment information from an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file into the TAPI server security file (Tsec.ini). |
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Writes performance counter data to the command window or to a supported log file format. |
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Synchronizes multiple computers across a network by using signals. |
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Locates and displays all files that match the given parameter. |
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Returns domain name, computer name, user name, group names, logon identifier, and privileges for the user who is currently logged on. |
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Eases the use of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and systems managed through WMI. |