Pace IT - Admin Tools (Part 3)

Administrative tools and features III.

Instructor, PACE-IT Program – Edmonds Community College

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Network Design

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M.B.A., IT Management, Western Governor’s University

B.S., IT Security, Western Governor’s University

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Brian K. Ferrill, M.B.A.


– Disk Management utility.

– Command line utilities.

– Transfer tools.

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Disk Management utility.Administrative tools and features III.

Disk Management utility.

Disk Management is available in all current versions of Microsoft operating systems.

It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) method for managing drives on a system. It allows the user to determine drive status, mount drives, extend partitions, split partitions, assign drive letters, add drives, and add arrays.



– Drive status.» Healthy: what you want to see.» Unreadable: indicates a failure.» Foreign: indicates that a dynamic disk has been

moved from one system to another.» Online: indicates that system is ready to go.» Online (error): indicates that the drive is about

to fail.» Offline: indicates that the drive is currently not

available to the system; it could indicate a hardware failure.

» Missing: indicates that the system knows about the drive, but cannot find it.

» Failed: indicates a failed volume.

– Mounting a drive.» This creates a logical pointer to the drive instead

of assigning a drive letter; it can be used in place of spanning a volume.



– Extending partitions.» Reclaiming unallocated space on a drive.

– Splitting partitions.» Just what it sounds like—taking one partition and

making into more than one.

– Assigning drive letters.» MS OSs automatically assign drive letters to new

volumes; Disk Management allows the user to assign a desired letter to the volume.

– Adding a drive.» Easy GUI method to add a new drive to the

system.

– Adding arrays.» Microsoft’s method of creating software based

RAIDs.


Command line utilities.Administrative tools and features III.

Command line utilities.

The savvy technician knows how to use the command line (C:\).

The technician who knows how to use the command line is not reliant on the GUI and can solve numerous problems through the use of it. Some powerful tools are available through the command line and it can be used to reach many other GUI utilities.



– Command or CMD.» Type “command” or “cmd” in a run or search box

to get access to the command prompt.

– Some available GUI utilities.» msconfig (a.k.a. system configuration): will open

the configuration utility.» regedit: will open utility that is used to edit the

system registry.» services.msc: will bring up the services utility.» mmc: starts the Microsoft Management Console

(MMC).» mstsc: will open the MS Terminal Services Client.» notepad: will open a simple text editor.» explorer: brings Windows Explorer into play.» msinfo32: brings up the systems information

utility.» dxdiag: will bring up the DirectX diagnostic tool.


Transfer tools.Administrative tools and features III.

Transfer tools.

– Microsoft understands the pain (kind of) of transitioning from an old PC to a new one.

– Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.

» Window’s basic wizard used to transfer user settings and files from an old PC to a new one, included in XP.

– Windows Easy Transfer.» Replacement for the above in Windows Vista and

newer.» Supports different methods of transfer.

– User State Migration Tool (USMT).

» Allows advanced users to use scripting to customize the transfer of files and settings between computers.

• Currently is only available as a command line utility.


What was covered.Administrative tools and features III.

Available in all current versions of Windows. Allows for a GUI method of easily managing the disks on a system. Status, mounting, partitioning, drive letter assignment, and adding drives and arrays are all available from this utility.

Topic


Summary.

The command line is a very powerful and useful tool to the technician. It also allows easy access to GUI utilities. Some of the GUI utilities available through the command line are msconfig, regedit, services.msc, mmc, mstsc, notepad, explorer, msinfo32, and dxdiag.


Microsoft provided tools to help transfer user settings and files between an old PC and a new one. Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (XP) was replaced by Windows Easy Transfer. USMT is for advanced users and utilizes scripting to automate the transfer function.

Transfer tools.

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