Do, you ever tried to change the monitor brightness using PowerShell. If not, than go and try it. It’s too cool. You can use the below “WmiMonitorBrightnessMethods” class to set the brightness of the monitor. You need to use “WmiSetBrightness” method of the class to set brightness. Do this: 1. Set your monitor brightness… Continue reading PowerShell Tips : Changing Monitor brightness using PowerShell.
Do you ever want to know what antivirus installed on remote laptop, or does remote system has a antivirus or not, knowing this is always a pain, normally you have to call user and ask them,. Today i have found a cool namespace named ““root\SecurityCenter2” ” and this name space has a class “AntiVirusProduct ”,… Continue reading PowerShell Script : Find the name of Installed Antivirus on local or remote laptop.
The job of System Administrators are very adventurous, sometime you have to find a little-little settings and sometime you have to write a big-big, hundred’s of line’s scripts. Today, my task was to find a default printer installed on laptops. To solve it , i used the Win32_Printer class. You can run the below query… Continue reading PowerShell Tip : Find Default Printer Installed using Powershell.
Hi, Last Sunday one of my friend come to visit me at my home, he is a SQL Administrator and we were talking about Powershell, and he told me that he is facing a problem, he said that in their environment they have approx. 500 Servers and they want to know the network configuration of… Continue reading Get Network Information of local and remote Computers using PowerShell.
Hi, This is a very common task which is nearly performed by every End-user and IT Admin and Engineers. Normally we use “IPCONFIG /Release” to release the IP-address and “IPconfig / Renew” to renew or getting a new IP Address. In some powershell script you may need to do this ip config /release and… Continue reading IP Address Release, Renew using PowerShell.
Hi, Yesterday I was surfing the TECHNET Script repository and see that one user is requested for a script which can delete offline email file {ost} from login users. This seems simple to me and I wrote a 3line script which can accomplish this task. Download the script from : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Delete-OST-from-User-App-22df1c88 1. … Continue reading Delete Offline OST files from login users account using PowerShell.
Hi, today i was trying to uninstall the the software using PowerShell. i See few blog posts about uninstalling software using PowerShell they re recommending WMI to uninstall software using the .Uninstalled() method. But i think this method is not right because it don’t un-installed the software properly. Sometime uninstalling software using these method… Continue reading Uninstall Software using PowerShell
WMI can retrieve a lot more object instances than you might think. If you submit a parent class, Get-WmiObject returns all instances of all derived classes. That’s why a simple line like the following can get you all hardware-related instances: PS> Get-WmiObject -Class CIM_PhysicalElement | Group-Object -Property __Class Count Name Group… Continue reading Creating System Footprints using PowerShell
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
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.
