Author Archives: Sems - Page 2
I needed to check software installs on multiple machines. One thing I found was to utilize WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). The command is simple:
wmic product where 'name like '%%Office%%'' get name
Above searches the installed programs ...
Deleting folders using wildcards
When doing manual/batch cleanups, I ran into an issue. The rmdir / rd command alone doesn't support wildcard characters (that is, * and ?). However, I found a workaround that uses a ...
I love automation, quick scripts and these are fitting the bill. Considering Exchange 2013 has bazillion services, if you need to stop them quickly and/or disable them, the scripts come handy.
Open PowerShell using Run as Administrator and then:
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There are times I have needed to adjust the safe senders list of a user on Office 365/Microsoft 365. If you are the administrator of the tenant, simply fire up Powershell, then:
$Credentials = Get-Credential
$Session = ...
Sometimes it comes very handy to do tasks via command prompt, especially when you are dealing with many PCs at one time. When I setup PCs, I give them proper names, instead of usual DESKTOP-SERIAL ...
In many clients I have worked with, there is Folder Redirection setup on the server for the users. While it is extremely useful, it can have issues with permissions when trying to move them to ...
For some of my clients, sometimes I am setting up quite a few new PCs at the same time. Thanks to Microsoft all are in Pacific Time Zone.
For Windows 7 and up, there is tzutil ...
I have been ignoring the site quite some time. I am intending to keep it fresh like it was before. We'll see how it goes. Between a pandemic and all other things in my life, ...
Windows Installer service will not run by default in Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking. However, sometimes you may need it. For example I was cleaning up my server over the weekend in Safe ...
I was copying some data between two NAS units (WDMyCloud, both). I usually prefer robocopy for the task, as it is faster than Explorer and I can control many things, like multithreading.
However, during this process, ...