Played around with the wmic command-line tool today With the WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line) command line tool you can access a lot of information about your computer. The command-line tool has been built into Windows since Windows XP. Below you can see a couple of command you can check out to get started with WMIC. C:\>wmic cpu
wmic scripts
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Windows Powershell for Newbies
Getting started with PowerShell PowerShell is Microsoft’s next generation command-line shell that helps IT guys all over the world to automate administrative tasks. If you have been around the IT business as long as I have you have properly made a lot for BAT files and batch programming to simplify and automate IT tasks. You
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How to get started creating scripts with WMI Code Creator
In this post I will introduce you to a great little tool from Microsoft that can help you getting started creating WMI scripts in C#, Visual Basic or VB script. The tool is free and can help you creating small scripts that can collect data from WMI or execute commands on local or remote computers. Scripting
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How to Schedule a reboot of Windows Server
If you are looking for the good old AT command on Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 or newer OS, you will notice that the command has been deprecated. Instead you should check out the schtasks.exe command line tool, that also is a pretty powerful tool. The need for scheduling a reboot of a server There can
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How to test if a firewall port is open – Powershell
Microsoft Powershell can be uses to a lot of amazing stuff. I have been using powershell for years now, but I am still learning cool stuff. Powershell contains a lot of cmdlets making it easy to complete all kinds of network tasks. In this post I will demonstrate some of them for you. Ping made smarter
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How to collect System Information using PowerShell
You don’t need to install 3rd party programs to get information about your computer system. With Windows PowerShell you can pull out all the system information you need. What is PowerShell PowerShell is a built-in scripting framework for Windows operating system. It is an advanced version of the old command prompt and is built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime. If you are new to PowerShell you can check out my Windows PowerShell for newbies post. With PowerShell you can develop advanced script to automate IT tasks or…
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How to get AD Password Age with PowerShell
In this post I will show you how easy you can find Active Directory password age for users, using simple PowerShell commands. How to get Password Age with PowerShell I you have a lot of users in Active Directory it can be difficult to get the full picture of your user’s password age. The easiest way to get the full picture is to use PowerShell commands to list the users and the password properties. With password you can pull a list of users in your Active Directory that you want…
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How to use PowerShell Speech commands
Did you know that PowerShell has built in commands for speech? This mean that you can get PowerShell to read your commands or results of commands. How to use PowerShell Speech commands I recently came across an interesting blogpost about speech commands in PowerShell. I was not aware that PowerShell had built-in commands for Speech, but it has. It is not easy to find much official documentation about it, but I will show you some small examples to get started. Getting started with PowerShell Speech At first, we will need…
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What is Windows Terminal?
What is Windows Terminal and how do you get it? I will explain all that and much more in this post. What is Windows Terminal? Have you heard about the Windows Terminal app for Windows 10? Until recently I didn’t. It turned out that back in 2020, Microsoft released a Windows Store app called Windows Terminal. It is a modern terminal where you can run both command prompt, PowerShell and Azure Cloud shell all from the same terminal. There is a lot of customization you can do with this terminal…
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