PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: By using WMI, you can enumerate the start mode that you want your services to use. To get a list of all services, try this: Get-WMIObject Win32_Service | Select-Object Name, StartMode If you want to find out the start mode of one specific service, try this instead:… Continue reading Determining Service Start Modes using PowerShell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: You can use WMI like this if you want to change a service start mode: ([wmi]’Win32_Service.Name=”Spooler”‘).ChangeStartMode(‘Automatic’).ReturnValue ([wmi]’Win32_Service.Name=”Spooler”‘).ChangeStartMode(‘Manual’).ReturnValue Note that a return value of 0 indicates success. You will need Administrator privileges to change the start mode. Thanks to www.powershell.com
Hi, In our IT environment we don’t give “admin” rights to the normal users and they can’t enable/disable, install/un-install anything. Today one of our users was having some problem with Wi-FI and to troubleshoot it i need to “enable” and “disable” Wi-Fi network adapter few times, but to enable or disable the network adapter… Continue reading “Enable or Disable” Network adapters using Powershell.
Hi, Today i have found that on few of our servers there are wrong version of SCOM Agents is installed, for example 32bit Agents are installed on 64bit Servers. Then i plan to uninstall them and reinstall the proper agent version I un-installed the Agents using “Add remove programs” on all the servers and then… Continue reading “When you un-installed the SCOM Agent from managed servers, SCOM is not discovering those Servers again to re-install agents”
Hi, As a Network Admin I always worry about my backups. I was planning to write a simple script which create a new folder by date and copy the desired files and folder in to it recursively. so i successfully able to write a script for it and sharing it with you and I hope… Continue reading “Smart Backup” using PowerShell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: When you need to store a picture into an AD account, the picture will have to be converted to byte values before it can be stored. Just make sure you adjust the path to the picture you want to store and the LDAP path of the AD object… Continue reading Storing Pictures in Active Directory
Hi, As the error clearly showing us that the problem is with one and more “SMTP” queue length. Let’s investigate a little bit more about it. Error: in error the source is “SMTP” and the path is one of our “Exchange Server”, in the error it is showing that the default number of message… Continue reading “Remote SMTP queue length is outside the configured threshold” error in SCOM
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: Finding IP and MAC address When you query network adapters with WMI, it is not easy to find the active network card. To find the network card(s) that are currently connected to the network, you can filter based on NetConnectionStatus which needs to be “2” for connected… Continue reading Finding IP and MAC address
Hi, from past few days I tried to writing a script which shows me that how many folders I do have in my Outlook and total number of emails stored on them. I get only 50% success so far, I am able to see the folders but somehow not able to see the total… Continue reading “Script to list all folder of Outlook and total number of emails store in them” using PowerShell
Hi Today i was searching for one PDF file on my laptop and then I just thinks “How Many PDF files do i have?”, i have no idea, one way to find is go to windows search and find all .PDF files? but “how can i find this with powershell” we can let try… Continue reading “Find how many types of files you have in you laptop” using Powershell.
