Category Archives: Windows Scripts

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Windows: A powershell tail “clone”

November 11, 2021 Michael Albert Leave a comment

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UNIX has some useful tools. One of it is tail. Often used to monitor changes (appends) within a file in real time.
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Powershell, VMware, Windows Scripts

VMware: Installing PowerCli from zip

September 9, 2020 Michael Albert 2 Comments

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if you have an system which is not connected to the internet you cannot install PowerCli online .

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Windows, Windows knowhow, Windows Scripts

Windows: Start an Windows APP from command line

May 26, 2020 Michael Albert Leave a comment

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this post describes how to start a Windows App from command line. Windows Apps cannot be started by calling the exe file in the C:\program files\WindowsApps\xxx folder. This can/must be done my using the explorer.exe.

The Syntax is

C:\> explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\%PackageFamilyNameOfTheApp%!%AppId%

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Windows, Windows Scripts

Windows: Download appx packages from Microsoft Store (Example install the new Windows Terminal offline)

April 27, 2020 Michael Albert 4 Comments

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the store itself does not have an option to download appx packages directly from the Windows store.
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Security, Windows, Windows Scripts

Powershell/Excel: Check if a excel document contains macros

April 26, 2020 Michael Albert Leave a comment

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this script can be used to check if excel contains some active code. It opens the excel file in an safe way and looks for VB content and write the full file path to the console if macros are found.
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