Thanks to the .NET library sending emails with PowerShell is surprisingly very simple! One thing to remember is line breaks, when you need a new line, make sure to use the escape characters `n . In the first example, I’ll send just a regular email, in the second I’ll send a SMS text message. Read more…
I’ve often found it necessary to pass my Administrator domain or Domain Admin (DomAdmin) credentials to run a PowerShell WMI command. Fortunately PowerShell provides 3 different ways of doing just that, not counting using Windows built in runas command. The three methods I’m going to go over are
- Entering your own unique credentials
- Entering a service account password, ie: the same username (or hard coding a username)
- Hard coding a user name and password
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I’m starting to learn how powerful the Windows Management Instrumentation aka Windows WMI is. One of the simpliest ways I found of accessing the information is via Windows PowerShell. Here is a simple PowerShell command that will return the Win32_OperatingSystem information. Read more…