Introduction How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version? If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo. It automatically displays relevant information about Read More
Category: Windows Servers
How to Install an Application Remotely with PsExec?
Download PsExec from there. Download PsTools (3.5 MB) Quick reference Create a BAT file (For example: cs.bat) with the below command line \\File_Server\CrowdStrike\WindowsSensor.MaverickGyr.exe” /quiet /norestart CID=4B01xxxxxxxxxxxxx Run the below command to install Crowdstrik windows Agent remotely psexec \\computer-to-be-installed-on -s -c \\File_Server\CrowdStrike\cs.bat Or you can create a serverlist.txt to install multiple servers with only one command psexec Read More
How to Disable Recent Files in Windows 10
Open Personalization in the Settings app. Click/tap on Start on the left side. Turn on or off to Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar for what you want. Source You can also set the following registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Just set the DWORD Start_TrackDocs value to the desired setting 0 = Turn off 1 = Turn on
Use PowerShell to Find Installed Software Quickly
by Gayathri R Nayak In certain situations, we may need to check the list of installed software and its version and for this, we can make use of PowerShell. Here at Bobcares, we have seen several such PowerShell related queries as part of our Server Management Services for web hosts and online service providers. Today, we’ll take a Read More
How to Determine if a DC Is a Global Catalog (GC) Server
There are several ways to find out if a Domain Controller has the Global Catalog role enabled. In this article, we’ll see how to determine this using the graphical user interface (GUI and PowerShell. Using the graphical user interface (GUI) After you connect to DC, open the Active Directory Sites and Services console. Expand the Sites container until you Read More
How To Find Out All Environment Variables on Windows
Environment Variables, according to a better definition on Wikipedia, are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. For example, a running process can query the value of the TEMP environment variable to discover a suitable place to store temporary files, or the AppData variable Read More