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.
Hi, Sometime i think that my Powershell blog postings are mainly TASK Based, i think my most of the post are related to “How to do that and how to achieve and ease that task with Powershell”, isn’t ?. The tittle of my blog is “The Life of an IT administrator”, and i love to… Continue reading Create Software Inventory of Remote Machines/Servers 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, Here is the list of some useful WMI Classes :). ClassName Contains win32_ComputerSystemProduct Serial Number, Vendor, information win32_bios Bios Information , including Version Number of BIOS win32_battery Battery Information win32_Physicalmemory Serial Number, Capacity, Part Number of Installed Memory Stick. win32_DiskDrive Capacity, Serial Number of Drive and other info of the Hard-disk win32_DesktopMonitor Monitor… Continue reading List of useful WMI classes to use with 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: Removing Shares (Remotely, Too) In a previous tip you learned how you can create ad-hoc shares using WMI. These shares persist until you remove them again. So if you’d like to clean up behind you, here is a one-liner that removes a share locally or remote: PS>… Continue reading Removing Shares (Remotely, Too) using PowerShell
PowerTip of the Day, from PowerShell.com: Let’s assume you need to access another machine’s file system but there is no network share available. Provided you have local administrator privileges and WMI remoting is allowed in your Firewall, here is a one-liner that adds another share remotely: PS> ([wmiclass]‘\\storage1\root\cimv2:Win32_Share’).Create(‘c:\’, ‘Hidden’, 0, 12, ‘secret share‘).ReturnValue… Continue reading Creating Shares Remotely 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.
Hi, how you find the which software is installed on your computer, most of users answered in “Control Panel” , yes it is right . but, if you are creating an Inventory of which system have which software then it’s not so useful for admins. lets use WMI to retrieve the list of Install… Continue reading Find the List of Installed software using WMI and PowerShell.
