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Patching, PowerShell, Powershell (Scripts)2016-11-162024-01-08

Get Last Patch Date Remotely Using PowerShell

Quick Code Summary Get Last Patch Date Remotely Using PowerShell Get-WmiObject -ComputerName “localhost” Win32_Quickfixengineering | select ` @{Name=”InstalledOn”;Expression={$_.InstalledOn -as [datetime]}} | Sort-Object -Property ` Installedon | select-object -property installedon -last 1 Sometimes you may need […]

Windows Server2016-09-222019-10-28

Windows Server stuck on Microsoft Corporation Logo

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 […]

Active Directory, Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD), Windows Server2016-01-042016-01-04

RMAD Unable to Execute Request 113

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 […]

PowerShell2015-11-042019-10-28

Call PowerShell Commands from VBScript

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 […]

HTA, Windows Desktop2015-09-292024-01-23

Run HTA as Different User or Administrator

When you shift-right-click an HTA file, the expanded context menu does not by default display Run as different user or Run as administrator. There is a workaround for this. It involves registry modification. Once the […]