Tag: script

Windows 10: Opening Program management tools and features from command prompt

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in Microsoft, windows

Sometimes you may want to run open Programs and Features without searching for it in the Control Panel. Another reason to require these commands is to run them with administrative privileges.

You can open the Run using [Windows KEY] + [R] or the cmd or even in PowerShell ISE

appwiz.cpl – open the Programs and Features window.

appwiz

devmgmt.msc – open the device manager

devmgmt

compmgmt.msc – open the computer management

compmgmt

diskmgmt.msc – opens the disk management

diskmgmt

lusrmgr.msc – opens the local users and groups management

lusrmgr

I will update this article with more useful commands as I identify them.

 

Microsoft: SysInternals Suite PS Exec Command Usage

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in Microsoft, Uncategorized, windows, Windows server

I was given a task to install a agent on computers and servers using command line as during my research I discovered this tool calls PSExec from the SysInternals Suite tools.

You may ask what is PSExec? According to Microsoft, it launches interactive command-prompts on remote systems and remote-enabling tools like IpConfig that otherwise do not have the ability to show information about remote systems. In other words, PSExec tool allows the execution of commands on a system remotely as if it is on the direct system console.

There are a number of features that I love about the PSExec tool which are as follows:

  1. It can run the command as another user remotely on the local system using user interaction
  2. It allows the execution of the command on multiple computers from a list in a text file

I was given the task to install the SAP Single Sign On add-in and it was difficult because it required that it is run under a network user locally in an interactive mode.

The PSExec tool gave me the power to overcome this difficulty.

Here is the syntax of the command and the parameters I used:

psexec.exe @[file-name.txt] -u [domain\username] -p -i -h [\\server\path\batch-files.bat]

explaining each switch:

@   execute the command on each computer in the file. Each computer must be in a new line

-u   username

-p  prompt for password

-i  run command in interactive mode

-h run the command with account elevated privilege

This command will execute the script on each computer return the result as it is completed.

Please ensure it is executed on a computer that is running since it cannot be execute without the computer being on.