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Subsequent calls to WMIC return a localdatetime with a deviating timezone

The problem In our company environment we use several batch files which use WMIC to retrieve the current time. Usually to print it to log files, but also to include the timestamp in a file name. Starting with Windows 10 - we do not remember seeing…
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Windows netstat vs WMIC bytes sent/received difference

I'm trying to understand the difference between the bytes sent/received values returned by both netstat and wmic on Windows. I'm having a hard time finding an explanation for the significant variation. Why is the byte count much higher when I use…
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Nano Server - Move Pagefile

Update: I never found a way to move the pagefile and with Microsoft's pivot to make Nano container only I doubt there will ever be a way to do this. I am trying to move the pagefile on a Windows Server Nano install. The page file is located at E:\…
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WMIC on multiple remote PC's failing with: Failed to open Node-list file

wmic /node:@PC-list.txt os get csname,installdate Command above yields this error: Failed to open Node-list file (Please check the filename).
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WMIC is running every second... how can I stop running it?

when I enter a server using Remote Desktop connection, I notice that every second a console window is opened and closed immediately. I could take a screenshot so I could see that the program that is run every second is "WMIC". I have looked at…
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wmic GroupUser where OR not working

These 2 statements, where the only difference is the order in the conditional, give different results. What is the reason for this behavior? Is my usage of OR incorrect? wmic /Node:%computername% path Win32_GroupUser WHERE (GroupComponent =…
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Get CPU load percentage on Windows 2008r2 Server - WMIC doesn't work?

I found the command wmic cpu get LoadPercentage was recommended as a way to get a CPU load estimate from a command line. It works as expected from a Windows 10 system: c:\>wmic cpu get LoadPercentage LoadPercentage 21 c:\> From a Windows 2008r2…
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Remove TerminalServices SSLCertificateSHA1Hash

I would like to remove RDP certificate that I previously set through the command wmic /namespace:\\root\cimv2\TerminalServices PATH Win32_TSGeneralSetting Set SSLCertificateSHA1Hash=$CertificateThumbprint Is it safe to direct remove the certificate…
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WMIC returnvalue = 3?

Am trying to install a simple msi from our DC to my machine for testing purposes, but, I keep on getting this one error: Method execution successful. Out Parameters: instance of __PARAMETERS { ReturnValue = 3; }; My syntax…
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Create .txt file with all PC names on domain for WMIC?

I'm wanting to run WMIC to call an uninstall for a certain bit of software, and, I have a working WMIC command, but I don't know how to create a .txt file with all of our computer names. Does anyone know how to do that? I know that the WMIC switch…
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GWMI - Find out if Domain Controllers are physical or virtual via script

I have tried to create a script for extracting but the output is not quite I desired. $Servers = Get-ADDomainController -Filter * | Select-Object Name foreach($server in $servers) { $compsystem = gwmi -q "Select * from win32_computersystem" |…
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wait until completing WMIC process call create cmd.exe to run bat

I'm running a bat file located on a remote server. The command is: wmic /node:[server name] process call create "cmd.exe /c [bat file location]. I would like the command to wait until the batch file execution completing. In other words: the command…
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Running remote commands on Windows 10

Recently i was trying to research deeper into running remote commands from windows to windows. It can be easy with ssh, ftp - but I wanted it to run the commands without knowing the password either username, just local ip and computer name and maybe…
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Get all hostnames in local DNS for current Windows server

I've deployed BGInfo from SysInternals to all of our servers, both physical and virtual. However, a few of our servers have multiple hostnames to support "backward compatibility" with some of our legacy software systems after a server was replaced…
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