Getting your public IP address programmatically can be very useful. Especially if you need to know when your internet service provider (ISP) has changed your dynamic IP address. Here is how to get your public IP address using PowerShell: (Invoke-WebRequest myexternalip.com/raw).content. Read on for more background and details…
Sometimes you may need to know a server’s last patch date. There can be many reasons why. One of which is when you are patching servers and want to get a general idea of whether or not the patching actually took place on each server. In this example we are are going to use a …
Quick Workaround 1. Hard reset the computer to reboot it. 2. Select “Launch Startup Repair (Recommended)”. 3. On the System Recovery Options window click Next. 4. Log on as a local administrator account. 5. Select “Command Prompt” to launch the command line interface. 6. Issue the following commands. Please note that the drive letter may be …
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A stubborn issue worth sharing has come up a couple of weeks ago. RMAD backups for a particular domain controller were failing as soon as we would enable the DC Storage option. RMAD unable to execute request (113). Error code 113 – event ID 1501. Error DC.domainname.local Unable to execute request (113). …
In this post, we demonstrate how to call PowerShell commands from VBScript. The method discussed here allows us to pass the output of a PowerShell command back into a VBScript variable. Why would one ever want to call PowerShell commands from VBScript? A variety of possible reasons we are not concerned with. Let us get …