filed in PowerShell, Scripting on Mar.18, 2010
One other nice thing I found with PowerShell is it’s ability of using APIs by importing DLLs. Below is one example, where user32.dll is imported and LockWorkstation Function is invoked to lock the desktop. Btw, I grabbed this script from TechNet Library Function Lock-WorkStation { $signature = @” [DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)] public static extern bool [...]
filed in Active Directory, Scripting on Nov.19, 2009
Today I want to turn my some of the scripting efforts to public. Sometimes I get requirements to see how many machines are online which are part of a AD security group. I worst method I used to follow was dumping the group member list to some text file and making use of a batch [...]
filed in Know your Shell, Scripting on Apr.06, 2009
I know there are varioud menthods for finding the hotfix installation status, but I felt this as very easy one. To find the hotfix installation status on local machine: wmic qfe where hotfixid=”KB958644″ list full To find on a remote machine: wmic /node: qfe where hotfixid=”KB958644″ list full To find on list of machines: o [...]
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Sitaram Pamarthi is working as a Windows System Administrator for last 6.5 years and in love with technology which made him to author this blog