The script runs fine from your terminal. You create a scheduled task, it fires at the right time — and produces nothing. The Last Run Result column shows 0x1 and the task history says “Task completed” with no further detail.…
If you come from Linux, you expect aliases to just work — type alias ll=’ls -la’, press Enter, done. Windows has the same concept, but it lives in two separate places depending on which shell you are in: CMD has…
DISM — Deployment Image Servicing and Management — is the tool you reach for when sfc /scannow reports corrupted files it cannot fix. Where SFC checks and repairs individual system files, DISM works at a lower level: it validates and…
Performance Monitor gives you graphs. Get-Counter gives you data — in the terminal, in variables, in CSV files, in scripts that run unattended at 3am. It reads the same performance counter infrastructure that PerfMon uses, but from PowerShell, which means…
Windows Event Logs accumulate fast. On a busy server, the Application and System logs can hold hundreds of thousands of entries within days. PowerShell gives you two tools for dealing with this: Get-WinEvent for reading and filtering events with precision,…
Every Windows administrator knows ipconfig It is usually the first command run when something on the network stops working. But ipconfig does more than display adapter information — it can flush the DNS cache, force a DHCP lease renewal,…
Checking whether a port is open — on the local machine or on a remote server — comes up in almost every troubleshooting scenario involving services, firewalls, or application connectivity. Windows has two built-in tools for this: netstat in CMD…
Event Viewer is fine for occasional manual checks. It breaks down the moment you need to search across multiple machines, filter by time range, correlate events by ID, or automate any part of the process. Get-WinEvent is the PowerShell cmdlet…
Git is version control software that tracks changes in files over time. System administrators use it to manage PowerShell scripts, configuration files, infrastructure documentation, and runbooks — anything that changes and needs a history. Without version control, you rely on…
Windows Terminal lets you define color schemes once in settings.json and apply them to any profile. For administrators who spend hours reading PowerShell output, event logs, and SSH sessions, a well-configured scheme is not cosmetic — it directly affects how…
