May 23
Time in Server Core
This first one will be a flash back to the old MS-DOS days. Since Server Core doesn’t have the system tray, there is no clock. If you are used to having the time available on the screen, you can add it to your prompt in the Command Prompt window. Entering the following:
prompt [$t]$s$p$g
Will display:
[14:27:06.28] C:\users\default>
Start /w Ocsetup <packagename>
Note: For Active Directory, run Dcpromo
View role and optional feature package names and current installation state
oclist
Cscript slmgr.vbs –ato
Activation in Server Core
There is a VBScript in Vista/Longhorn that can be used to activate from the command line: slmgr.vbs.
To activate Server Core you can run:
Cscript slmgr.vbs –ato
You can also verify your connection to the Internet and proxy settings (Netsh winhttp proxy)
To verify if activation was successful you can run:
Cscript slmgr.vbs –did
From the output, get the GUID for the appropriate product key, e.g. retail channel, and then run:
Cscript slmgr.vbs –dli GUID
If you didn’t activate before the grace period expired, you can also use slmgr.vbs to remotely activate. This can be done remotely by including the servername, username and password along with the –ato switch.
May 23
WMIC commands.
If you want to determine a file’s version, for instance to see if it was patched, you can use WMIC:
wmic datafile where name=”d:\\windows\\system32\\ntdll.dll” get version
If you want to see what patches have been installed, WMIC will also show you that information:
wmic qfe list
Update static IP address
wmic nicconfig where index=9 call enablestatic(“192.168.16.4″), (“255.255.255.0″)
Change network gateway
wmic nicconfig where index=9 call setgateways(“192.168.16.4″, “192.168.16.5″),(1,2)
Enable DHCP
wmic nicconfig where index=9 call enabledhcp
Service Management
wmic service where caption=”DHCP Client” call changestartmode “Disabled”
Start an application
wmic process call create “calc.exe”
Terminate an application
wmic process where name=”calc.exe” call terminate
Change process priority
wmic process where name=”explorer.exe” call setpriority 64
Get list of process identifiers
wmic process where (Name=’svchost.exe’) get name,processid
Information about harddrives
wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=3 get name, freespace, systemname, filesystem, size, volumeserialnumber
Information about os
wmic os get bootdevice, buildnumber, caption, freespaceinpagingfiles, installdate, name, systemdrive, windowsdirectory /format:htable > c:\osinfo.htm
Information about files
wmic path cim_datafile where “Path=’\\windows\\system32\\wbem\\’ and FileSize>1784088″ > c:\wbemfiles.txt
Process list
wmic process get /format:htable > c:\process.htm
Retrieve list of warning and error events not from system or security logs
WMIC NTEVENT WHERE “EventType<3 AND LogFile != ‘System’ AND LogFile != ‘Security’” GET LogFile, SourceName, EventType, Message, TimeGenerated /FORMAT:”htable.xsl”:” datatype = number”:” sortby = EventType” > c:\appevent.htm
wmic computersystem where name=”<computername>” set AutomaticManagedPagefile=False
wmic pagefileset where name=”C:\\pagefile.sys” set InitialSize=500,MaximumSize=1000
Msiexec.exe /i
logoff will log ya off
shutdown /r will reboot
shutdown /i will display a GUI of options for the shutdown command
Sc query type= driver
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