Category Archives: Windows 8

Formatting disks – – the new way

Posted on Monday 14 July 2014 by richardsiddaway

Last time I showed how to format disks using the Win32_Volume CIM class. If you need to perform this activity on a Windows Server 2012/Windows 8 or later system you can use a couple of cmdlets from the Storage module … Continue reading →

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Windows installed features

Posted on Sunday 8 December 2013 by richardsiddaway

On a Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 system you can install the ServerManager module and use the Get-WindowsFeature cmdlet to discover the installed features. They can be managed with Install-WindowsFeature and Uninstall-WindowsFeature . These cmdlets don’t exist on Windows … Continue reading →

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Transferring modules from Windows 8 or 8.1 to Windows 7

Posted on Sunday 8 December 2013 by richardsiddaway

Windows 7 shipped with PowerShell 2.0 installed.  Windows 8 brought PowerShell 3.0 and Windows 8.1 brings PowerShell 4.0. Windows 8 and 8.1 also have a lot of modules installed. This extra functionality widens PowerShell reach immensely – the networking modules … Continue reading →

Posted in CDXML, CIM, PowerShell and WMI, PowerShell V3, PowerShell v4, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a comment

Setting an IP address

Posted on Friday 30 August 2013 by richardsiddaway

I need to add an IP address to an adapter.  I could use the GUI or WMI but with Windows 8/2012 and above I’ve got all of the nifty networking cmdlets to play with. Lets start with finding the adapter … Continue reading →

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International Module

Posted on Wednesday 28 August 2013 by richardsiddaway

The International module has an interesting set of cmdlets:£> Get-Command -Module International | select Name Name—-Get-WinAcceptLanguageFromLanguageListOptOutGet-WinCultureFromLanguageListOptOutGet-WinDefaultInputMethodOverrideGet-WinHomeLocationGet-WinLanguageBarOptionGet-WinSystemLocaleGet-WinUILanguageOverrideGet-WinUserLanguageListNew-WinUserLanguageListSet-CultureSet-WinAcceptLanguageFromLanguageListOptOutSet-WinCultureFromLanguageListOptOutSet-WinDefaultInputMethodOverrideSet-WinHomeLocationSet-WinLanguageBarOptionSet-WinSystemLocaleSet-WinUILanguageOverrideSet-WinUserLanguageList £> Get-WinHomeLocation | fl * GeoId        : 242HomeLocation : United Kingdom £> Get-WinSystemLocale | fl * Parent                         : enLCID                           : 2057KeyboardLayoutId               : 2057Name                           : … Continue reading →

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Windows Error Reporting Cmdlets

Posted on Tuesday 27 August 2013 by richardsiddaway

Windows Error Reporting (WER) captures software crash and hang data from Windows systems. The data is sent to Microsoft for analysis. The data captured by WER is used to identify those bugs that are affecting customers the most. Fixing those … Continue reading →

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Internet Connection

Posted on Wednesday 17 July 2013 by richardsiddaway

Can you find the network adapter on your machine that’s connected to the Internet?  On a Windows 8/2012 machine its fairly simple: PS> Get-NetConnectionProfile -IPv4Connectivity Internet Name             : NetworkNameInterfaceAlias   : AdapterNameInterfaceIndex   : 12NetworkCategory  : PrivateIPv4Connectivity : InternetIPv6Connectivity : LocalNetwork What … Continue reading →

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RDP annoyance

Posted on Wednesday 26 June 2013 by richardsiddaway

I’ve RDPing into a number of servers from different systems recently and the way the screen resolution changes to match your monitor size is annoying. If I use the shortcut to the session I get whatever sizes were set in … Continue reading →

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Network Adapters–Disable/Enable

Posted on Monday 11 March 2013 by richardsiddaway

Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module PS> Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a Name     InterfaceDescription                           Status —-     ——————–                           —— Ethernet NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet        Up WiFi     Qualcomm Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter Up … Continue reading →

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Network adapters

Posted on Monday 4 March 2013 by richardsiddaway

The WMI classes Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration have seen a lot of use over the years. They can be a bit fiddly to use which is why the NetAdapter module in Windows 8/2012 is a so welcome. Lets start by looking … Continue reading →

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