This Powershell command will install a Windows feature on your Windows 8.1 or server 2012 machine. I am only using the telnet server as an example. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Install-WindowsFeature telnet-server Success Restart Needed Exit Code Feature Result ——- ————– ——— ————– True No Success {Telnet Server} This is how easy…
Read MoreWindows Server 2012 R2 supports quite a few cmdlets that allow the user to gain quite a bit of information about the networking configuration of the server machine. Here are a few examples with output. This command: Get-NetAdapterHardwareInfo gets hardware information about your wireless adapters. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-NetAdapterHardwareInfo Name…
Read MoreThe route PRINT command shows the routing table. This gives some insight into your network connections. C:\Users\Administrator>route PRINT =========================================================================== Interface List 18…1e 0f 6e 5d e1 25 ……Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter 13…4c 0f 6e 5d e1 25 ……Qualcomm Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter 12…88 ae 1d 6d 09 bc…
Read MoreEntering the product key in server 2012 sometimes is fraught with frustration. You can try to enter it via the CMD command prompt with this command. PS C:\Users\Administrator> slmgr -ipk XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXPS C:\Users\Administrator> slmgr -ipk XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX and you get an error. The best way is to use this command. PS C:\Users\Administrator>…
Read MoreThe so-called December 2012 Apocalypse is tomorrow. This will be a non-event but what will we come up with next? Sure the Sun will burn up the Earth in about 5 billion years and the planet Earth will be unlivable for multi-cellular life in about 300 million years. So the…
Read MoreThe best thing to purchase if you are interested in Christmas gifts for a computer user in your household; other than a Laptop which is very useful these days would have to be an external hard disk that they could use to backup their precious data. Backing up data that…
Read MoreThe desktop computing platform has gone through a massive change in 20 years, with the climb in power between the 8088 and the Intel 286 computers of old with processor clock speeds less than 10 Megahertz to the multi-core i7 beasts that we have now; with more RAM than a…
Read MoreAstronomers have made an amazing discovery, a group of 10,000 distant galaxy clusters that are rushing towards the same point in the sky. The implications of this is that there are unimaginably large structures in the distant areas of the Universe that are beyond our sight. The visible Universe is…
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