January 2017

List running processes and sort by cpu Get-Process | Sort-Object -Property cpu -Descending

Within Powershell you can also see when a LOCAL user was last logged in. This can be done with the following one-liner: $([ADSI]”WinNT://$env:COMPUTERNAME”).Children | where {$_.SchemaClassName -eq ‘user’} | ft name,lastlogin example output: name lastlogin —- ——— {localadmin} {28/09/2016 08:57:19}…

With Powershell you can also find files which are larger than a certain size. This can be accomplished with the command below. In this example we are looking for files larger than 100MB, on the C drive. Get-ChildItem c:\ -Recurse…

If you want to test a firewall rule, while the application isn’t ready yet, you can start that port on the Windows server using Powershell. This way you can test the firewall functionality. Those actions can be done with the…

Performance issues. Everybody had them once, and more 🙂 If you are using Windows 2012+ and Powershell, you can use the Get-Counter command in order to provide you more information regarding the TCP connections. In the example below, we are…

If you want to configure the DNS suffix search list on Windows 2012+, you can use the set-DnsclientGlobalSetting command, as shown in the example below. This will set the DNS search list to “domain.local”: set-DnsClientGlobalSetting -SuffixSearchList  @(“domain.local”)

Sometimes there are some applications which take the ‘first network card’ in order to send/receive traffic. If you have multiple network cards, this can be problematic of course. In case you want to resolve that, you can change the order…