This is another tutorial about PowerShell and Windows 8.1 operating system. You can try with another Windows OS version and PowerShell. The first issue is to show all active services on your computer:
1 | Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”} |
This will show all event logs on your computer:
1 | Get-EventLog -List |
More info about restricted execution policy that prevents scripting on PowerShell,… Read More »
Windows PowerShell modules provide a convenient way to package reusable ode by using modules. The concept of modules is a package that contains Windows PowerShell version 2.0 commands. Anyone can write and install a Windows PowerShell script module with administrator rights. There is three default location for Windows PowerShell modules: home users, Windows PowerShell home… Read More »
Today I come with this simple tutorial about how to show logs from the last day. The command is very simple and can be used with PowerShell and administrator command shell like this:
1 | Get-EventLog Application -After (Get-Date).AddDays(-1) |
This command is built from Get-EventLog and parse by Get-Date, see options:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | Get-EventLog [-LogName] [-ComputerName <String[]>] [-Newest ] [-After ] [-Before ] [-UserName <String[]>] [[-InstanceId] <Int64[]>] [-Index <Int32[]>] [-EntryType <String[]>] [-Source <String[]>] [-Message ] [-AsBaseObject] [] Get-Date [[-Date] <DateTime>] [-Year <Int32>] [-Month <Int32>] [-Day <Int32>] [-Hour <Int32>] [-Minute <Int32>] [-Second <Int32>] [-Millisecond <Int32>] [-DisplayHint <DisplayHintType>] [-UFormat <String>] [<CommonParameters>] |
About AddDays is not the only option you… Read More »
This tutorial is about PowerShell and running script to disable some Services in Windows. The Windows PowerShell execution policy allows your scripts to run on your computer. If you want to see the Windows PowerShell execution policy, use the Get-ExecutionPolicy command. To change the Windows PowerShell execution policy on your computer, use the Set-ExecutionPolicy command.… Read More »
This can be useful to check the integrity of upgrade process for your Windows OS ( all versions with wmic tool).
1 | wmic qfe list full /format:htable > C:\hotfixes.htm |
The same issue with PowerShell tool, see:
1 2 3 | Get-WmiObject -Class "win32_quickfixengineering" | Select-Object -Property "Description", "HotfixID", @{Name="InstalledOn"; Expression={([DateTime]($_.InstalledOn)).ToLocalTime()}} |
You can test connectivity with the PowerShell administrator mode by using the next commands:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> test-connection -Count 2 PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Test-NetConnection PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Test-NetConnection -Port 80 -InformationLevel "Detailed" PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> test-netconnection Ethernet PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> test-netconnection www.google.com PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> test-netconnection www.google.com -CommonTCPPort HTTP PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> test-netconnection www.google.com -TraceRoute PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Test-WSMan mycomputer PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Major Minor Build Revision ----- ----- ----- -------- 5 1 15063 502 |
Let’s start with Test-NetConnection command. This command displays diagnostic information for a connection. Depending on the input you can test ping test, TCP test, route tracing, and route selection diagnostics and also get info about DNS lookup results, a list… Read More »