Hi SysAdmins
Did you ever wonder how SCCM 2012 install a DP remotely from the CM console?
DISM.exe (Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool) is a command line tool that you can use to enable or disable Windows features.
In this case we use it to install all the necessary IIS features for a SCCM 2012 DP.
Command line to install IIS on DPs:
Continue reading How to install IIS features on SCCM 2012 Distribution Point with command line
The “Silent Ping” Command is a sort of improvement for the well known ping command.
So, why do we need it?
When you reboot a serve or PC remotely, you can never be sure when it was booted again or when it is online again,
Most people use the ping command with the -t parameter to check if a server is online again.
But what if you could know exactly when a server is up again or even simply monitor a server when it goes offline over the night,
Or if a communication error occurs that cause some kind of service outage.
Hi SysAdmins
Did you ever ran into a situation where you need to add a foreign language to the powershell or Command console? let’s say for script output purpose.
It seems that the process of adding Non-Latin characters is not widely documented.
In this example I will demonstrate how to add Hebrew writing to Powershell. This will also affect the Command (CMD) console.
Continue reading How to Add Hebrew to Powershell or Command (CMD) Console
Hi SysAdmins
It is very useful to know how many days are your system up and online. Especialy in windows OS.
There are several ways to find the system uptime in Windows XP and above:
This command-line utility shows the time that the system was booted and its running time.
Continue reading How to find the system uptime in Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008