In this article, I will tell you about a very practical little program to make it easier for you to install programs on workstations and servers. Chocolatey is to Windows what apt-get is to Debian. Chocolatey allows you to install, update and remove software in PowerShell (ps). To install Chocolatey you must launch the command …
In this tutorial, I will tell you how to export and import a scheduled task. This tutorial applies to both Windows Server and the Desktop version (Windows 10). To illustrate this tutorial, I will export a scheduled task that runs a PowerShell script that allows restarting a computer. The scheduled task runs the ps-restartcomputer.ps1 script …
In this tutorial on “scripting”, I suggest you discover or see how to manage network drives with PowerShell and you will see that it is not that “simple”. In the tutorial: Network Drive Mapping: GPO and Script, I explain how to map a network drive with Group Policy using and how to do it with …
In this “tutorial”, I will give you some PowerShell cmdlets to manage your DNS server cache on Windows Server. To be more precise, we will see 4 cmdlet PowerShell * -DnsServerCache cmdlets. Show-DnsServerCache The first command displays the DNS cache: The output of the command gives all DNS records cached on the server. In console …
In this tutorial, I will tell you how to delete all partitions from a hard drive with DISKPART. I am using this procedure to remove OEM partitions on computers from manufacturers like HP / DELL. Before performing this operation, make sure you have a backup of the data. Now that I have warned you, we …
The next two lines of code allow you to delete all files with a particular extension in a folder. The example below will delete all of the .log files from the C:\Windows folder.
The script allows you to delete all network printers on a workstation / server. ‘ ‘ RDR REMOVE NETWORK PRINTER ‘ ‘ ‘ Dim strComputer strComputer = “.” Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2”) Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery (“Select * from Win32_Printer”) Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Network”) ‘msgbox “open script” ‘ Boucle sur les …
In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to reset the WSUS service by recreating the SUSDB database on WID (Windows Internal Database) and the updates storage folder (WsusContent / UpdateServicesPackages). This type of operation can normally be done “without too much risk”, resetting WSUS will see us lose the history of updates on …
In this tutorial, I will explain how to change the network profile of the firewall on Windows. It happens that after a restart, the profile of the firewall goes private, we will see how to change it back to the domain profile. The connection profile on a network adapter is especially useful when different firewall …
In this “how to” tutorial, I will show you how to disable automatic updates on Windows Server 2016 and 2019. If we look in the Windows Update options in Windows settings, there is no option to disable or at least control the operation of updates. However, there is a simple way on Windows Server to …