Apr 10, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Display Windows Shares Using PowerShell and WMI

Introduction By using PowerShell to call WMI we can gather information on the share on a system or on  a remote system. In this post we will cover how retrieve basic nd some detailed information using PowerShell and WMI. With Windows 8.1 ans Server 2012 R2 there have been added cmdlets called Get-SmbShare which will be covered in future posts. The Commands So let’s get started on getting some... read more

Mar 14, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Installing WMF 5 and PowerShell 5 on Windows 2012 R2

Introduction PowerShell continues to improve, many features are being added and now we have PowerShell 5 that is available for installation on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1. The installation is simple and only requires a reboot. Windows Management Framework 5.0 (WMF 5) includes updates to Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), Windows Remote Management (WinRM),... read more

Oct 2, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Remove Windows 10 Pre-Installed Apps

Introduction You just installed Windows 10 and have been getting the feel of Microsoft’s latest version and notice there is alot of extra stuff installed. Windows 10 comes with a bunch of pre-installed apps. Fortunately, you can use PowerShell to remove any app you don’t like. You will need Administrator privileges to remove them from your system. Step 1 – Open a PowerShell Session Open... read more

Sep 16, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving Hyperthreading CPU Information on Windows 2008 R2 using PowerShell and CoreInfo

Sometimes you just need to get specific information about the processor and the settings on a server and you really don’t want to get into the BIOS and dig around and find it. There are many ways that we can do that but for this post let’s use PowerShell and a SysInternals tool called CoreInfo. This post is due to a customer request on information from a remote physical server. CoreInfo... read more

Aug 3, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Uninstall Programs Using PowerShell

PowerShell is just one of those tools for Windows that continues to get better and better in uses you find on a day to day basis. One such tedious task is uninstalling programs. Wouldn’t it be awesome to create a script to automate this for many or even one system? In this post we will cover how to get a list of installed programs and how to remove one at a time or many at once. Using PowerShell to... read more