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Common Entries (Just To Get Started)

The document provides 25 common PowerShell commands for navigating the Windows registry, managing processes and services, collecting system information, managing software and printers, and remotely administering other machines. The commands cover tasks such as searching files, listing processes by memory usage, cycling services, removing files recursively, restarting the local computer, getting BIOS and network configuration details, installing and removing MSI packages, adding and removing printers, and remotely running scripts and shutting down other machines.

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Common Entries (Just To Get Started)

The document provides 25 common PowerShell commands for navigating the Windows registry, managing processes and services, collecting system information, managing software and printers, and remotely administering other machines. The commands cover tasks such as searching files, listing processes by memory usage, cycling services, removing files recursively, restarting the local computer, getting BIOS and network configuration details, installing and removing MSI packages, adding and removing printers, and remotely running scripts and shutting down other machines.

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Common entries (just to get started)

1. Navigate the Windows Registry like the file system -- cd hkcu:


2. Search recursively for a certain string within files -- dir r | select string
"searchforthis"

3. Find the five processes using the most memory -- ps | sort p ws | select last 5
4. Cycle a service (stop, and then restart it) like DHCP -- Restart-Service DHCP
5. List all items within a folder -- Get-ChildItem Force
6. Recurse over a series of directories or folders -- Get-ChildItem Force c:\directory
Recurse

7. Remove all files within a directory without being prompted for each -- Remove-Item
C:\tobedeleted Recurse

8. Restart the current computer -- (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem


-ComputerName .).Win32Shutdown(2)

Collecting information
9. Get information about the make and model of a computer -- Get-WmiObject -Class
Win32_ComputerSystem

10. Get information about the BIOS of the current computer -- Get-WmiObject -Class
Win32_BIOS -ComputerName .

11. >List installed hotfixes (QFEs, or Windows Update files) -- Get-WmiObject -Class
Win32_QuickFixEngineering -ComputerName .

12. Get the username of the person currently logged on to a computer -- Get-WmiObject
-Class Win32_ComputerSystem -Property UserName -ComputerName .

13. Find just the names of installed applications on the current computer -- Get-WmiObject
-Class Win32_Product -ComputerName . | Format-Wide -Column 1

14. Get IP addresses assigned to the current computer -- Get-WmiObject -Class


Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter IPEnabled=TRUE -ComputerName . |
Format-Table -Property IPAddress

15. Get a more detailed IP configuration report for the current machine -- Get-WmiObject
-Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter IPEnabled=TRUE
-ComputerName . | Select-Object -Property [a-z]* -ExcludeProperty
IPX*,WINS*

16. To find network cards with DHCP enabled on the current computer -- Get-WmiObject
-Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter "DHCPEnabled=true"
-ComputerName .

17. Enable DHCP on all network adapters on the current computer -- Get-WmiObject -Class
Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter IPEnabled=true -ComputerName . |
ForEach-Object -Process {$_.EnableDHCP()}

Software management
18. Install an MSI package on a remote computer -- (Get-WMIObject -ComputerName
TARGETMACHINE -List | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Name -eq
"Win32_Product"}).Install(\\MACHINEWHEREMSIRESIDES\path\package.msi)

19. Upgrade an installed application with an MSI-based application upgrade package -- (GetWmiObject -Class Win32_Product -ComputerName . -Filter
"Name='name_of_app_to_be_upgraded'").Upgrade(\\MACHINEWHEREMSIRESIDES\path\
upgrade_package.msi)

20. Remove an MSI package from the current computer -- (Get-WmiObject -Class
Win32_Product -Filter "Name='product_to_remove'"
-ComputerName . ).Uninstall()

Machine management

21. Remotely shut down another machine after one minute -- Start-Sleep 60; RestartComputer Force ComputerName TARGETMACHINE

22. Add a printer -- (New-Object -ComObject


WScript.Network).AddWindowsPrinterConnection("\\printerserver\hplaser3")

23. Remove a printer -- (New-Object -ComObject


WScript.Network).RemovePrinterConnection("\\printerserver\hplaser3 ")

24. Enter into a remote PowerShell session (you must have remote management enabled) -enter-pssession TARGETMACHINE

25. Run a script on a remote computer -- invoke-command -computername machine1,


machine2 -filepath c:\Script\script.ps1

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