Useful Powershell Commands for Systems Administrators

Useful Powershell Commands for Systems Administrators

Command	Module/Source	Usage	Example
Add-Printer	PrinterManagment	Using this command we can printer to the computer	Add-Printer -ConnectionName \\prtsrv\HP3250
Get-Acl	Microsoft.PowerShell.Security	Retrieve NTFS security list	Get-Acl -Path D:\data | FL
Get-SmbOpenFile	smbshare	we can list down all the open files on the server’s share	Get-SmbOpenFile
Get-HotFix	Microsoft.PowerShell.Management	List down all the installed windows patches	Get-Hotfix
Close-SmbOpenFile	smbshare	This command will close all the open files from the network(Network Share).Rather than using file share mmc we can easily close all the files	Close-SmbOpenFile
Get-SmbShare	smbshre	This command will list down all the shared folders.(Alternative for Net Share)	Get-SmbShare
Get-Printer	Print Management	List down all the printers in the server or computer.	Get-Printer
Get-Process	Microsoft.PowerShell.Management	List down all the running process on the computer	Get-Process
Stop-Process	Microsoft.PowerShell.Management	Stop specific process/es on the computer	Get-Process note* | Stop-Process *With this command i m going to stop all notepad.exe which are currently running
Show-EventLog	Microsoft.Poershell.Management	Run the event viewer(eventvwr.msc)	Show-Eventlog *This command is alternative for eventvwr.msc
Get-EventLog	Microsoft.PowerShell.Managemen	Query/retrieve data from event logs	Get-EventLog -LogName system -InstanceId 20 *This command list down all system system events with event id 20(one of the installation failure event)
Stop-Computer	Microsoft.PowerShell.Managemen	Shutdown the computer	Stop-Computer
Restart-Computer	Microsoft.PowerShell.Managemen	Restart the computer	Restart-Computer
Get-VM	Hyper-V	List down the specific/all virtual machines on the server/Desktop	Get-VM *This will list down all the vms.Also we can filter the data based on name or any other available parameters
Stop-VM	Hyper-V	Shutdown the specific/all the virtual machines on the sever/Desktop	Stop-VM Srv02 *This will shutdown vm named Srv02

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