Just a quick note on renaming Windows based machine using CLI (this may be especially useful when working with Server Core). Before renaming machine you may want to see its current name which can be achieved in three different ways: 1) ipconfig /all 2) set 3) hostame As you can see third option is best one … How to rename Windows computer using CLI
Just a quick note on how to check if some specific Windows update is installed on the system via command prompt. I thought I already took a note of this, but was not able to find existing post on this. While investigating an issue or doing troubleshooting something more often than not you may need … Checking for Windows update presence via command line
Just a quick and short post on essential PowerShell cmdlets which you may use to manage network settings. The slide below taken from “Configuring and Managing Windows 8.1” module of “Preparing for Windows 8.1 MCSA” MVA course. To be honest I didn’t know some of cmdlets listed and those may be useful not only for MCSA … Using PowerShell to manage network settings
Apart from obvious ways to do it via Windows Server GUI which is the long way (plus if you working with multiple versions like Server 2003 and 2008 it differs slightly and requires you to remember the “path” through GUI to find this information) there are CLI tool to accomplish this: qwinsta available starting from Windows XP, if … How to: do a quick check on who is connected to the server via RDP
