Windows tips, howtos, scripts
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it’s simply possible to get the serial number of your Windows device at command line. Precontition is that the vendor has done it’s home work and filled up the DMI tables correctly 🙂 .
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since Windows 2008 and Windows Vista it is no more possible to start a cmd.exe with system rights by using the (Task)Scheduler.
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since Windows 7 respectively Windows 2008R2 it has the ability to start a windows service with a trigger. Some Services, like dnscache, starts or stops on demand.
A customer had the problem that sometimes, after an automatic restart (on idle) of the DNS Client Service, Windows won’t register its name in DNS anymore. A manual register with
C:\> ipconfig /registerdns
was necessary each time.
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short post today:-)
nltest is a builtin tool in Windows to query lots of AD information.
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the time command in Windows gets or sets the system time. If you need an equivalent to the linux time command – which measure the execution time of a given command – you can use the powershell commandlet Measure-Command. Limitation is that only the time can measure how long the command execution runs, not splited into user, system and realtime.
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