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} {nx} {05/01/2017 19:52:58} {Visitor}      

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 | Where-Object {$_.Length -gt 100MB}  

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 following commands: $Listener = [System.Net.Sockets.TcpListener]4444; $Listener.Start(); Where “4444” is the TCP port…

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 getting the counters for IPv4 TCP:   Get-Counter -Counter \TCPv4\*   This…

  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 of the network cards.In order to do that, first get the interface…

Hello, In addition to “PowerShell: Run command at certain date/time”, we got the request to include a start time also.In the script below, we are doing such thing. (write-host commands are in Dutch tho). In case the user specifies a valid start date/time, the script will start the program. (example program).If the user…

Sometimes it can be handy to automatically stop a process at a certain time.I did this using the following powershell script. The script will first ask at what time it needs to be stopped. You can specify seconds if needed, but not required, or you can specify a date. Even milliseconds,…