by skufel | Oct 30, 2014 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
If there is a need to pass specific credentials to Get-WmiObject in order to gather information from remote machine, here is how you can do it: $LAdmin = "DOMAIN\Administrator" $LPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "Password!" -AsPlainText -Force...
by skufel | Dec 5, 2013 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, Windows
Some handy wmic commands which might be helpful when automating OS deployment: wmic bios get serialnumber wmic computersystem get manufacturer wmic computersystem get model
by skufel | Apr 4, 2013 | Databases, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Recently I had issue which occured without any particular reason on SQL Server 2012. All of the sudden I start getting error message: Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005...
by skufel | May 15, 2012 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Recently I was wondering how to list all available drives in Windows 7 PE Command Prompt. That happened to me when stuck in PXE boot command prompt window trying to find out what letter is assigned to USB stick I just plugged in. It looks like it’s not quite...
