Operating System – shell{&}co

Automatic HTTPS WinRM Listener creation

In this post I will show you how to create a HTTPS WinRM listener that is using a certificate issued by your own MS PKI. The requirements are the following: – An Active Directory domain – An Enterprise MS PKI

Play with the Windows Task Scheduler and XML

You will find in this post two scripts to : create scheduled tasks on remote computers get scheduled tasks on remote computers These actions will be performed using xml and the COM object Schedule.Service. I will write another article on

Get the free space on remote computer disks

With this simple script, you will be able to get the free space available on the C: drive on a list of remote computers. I’m using WMI to request the remote computers. You can use two different ways for the

List domain controllers forest wide with OS version

This powershell script will allow you to get a list of your domain controllers and their operating system versions. This script uses information stored in the Active Directory database using the cmdlet get-adcomputer $list = (Get-ADForest).GlobalCatalogs $domainnames = (Get-ADForest).Domains $domainnames_arr

Retrieve Active Directory domain controller OS forest wide

Retrieve Active Directory domain controller OS forest wide This script uses the information stored in the Active Directory database to retrieve the domain controller FQDNs qnd their operating system. The script follow the steps below enumerate the domain names in

Logoff user session remotely

I found a useful method to use WMI to logoff remotely a user session (on a workstation for example). It has been tested successfully on a Windows 7 computer. This WMI method can be found with the following command: gwmi

Get operating system information using WMI

Fill a host file (hosts.txt) with the hostnames you want to retrieve the operating system information Script : $Catalog = GC “C:\hosts.Txt” ForEach($Machine in $Catalog){ $QueryString = Gwmi Win32_OperatingSystem -Comp $Machine $QueryString = $QueryString.Caption Write-Host $Machine “:” $QueryString } Reference

Get HP iLO board informations using XML

The purpose of this script is to retrieve the following HP iLO board informations : HP Server model, iLO model, iLO firmware version. You only need a host file filled in with all your iLO IP addresses. The script has

List the installed softwares remotely using WMI

This script gets the installed software list on a specific computer using WMI Script : $strComputer = “computer_hostname” $colItems = get-wmiobject -class “Win32_Product” -namespace “root\CIMV2” ` -computername $strComputer foreach ($objItem in $colItems) { write-host “Caption: ” $objItem.Caption write-host “Description: “

Get hotfix list remotely

This script gets the hotfix list installed on a remote system. I add a date filter to the result. Script : $strComputer = “remote_system_name” $hotfixlist = Get-HotFix -ComputerName $strComputer foreach ($hotfix in $hotfixlist) { if ($hotfix.psbase.properties[“installedOn”].Value -eq “10/28/2010”) { write-host

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