Powershell scripts won’t run or import because running scripts is disabled In the event that you are unable to run power shell script’s, it’s quite a simple fix actually. The error Powershell scripts won’t run or import because running scripts is disabled is because the execution policy within PowerShell is preventing it from running. From and then […]
Category Archives: Windows Server 2012 R2
Prevent Silverlight from showing up under Windows Updates FOR GOOD!
Prevent Silverlight from showing up under Windows Updates One thing that’s annoying is that Windows 7 with SP1 and Windows 8 and 8.1 all have Silverlight baked into the OS for minimum functionality. The truth is though that most people never use it unless they are running Netflix which is also in the process of […]
Get list of software installed from a remote computer WMI and PowerShell
Get list of software installed from a remote computer WMI and PowerShell Ever wanted to Get list of software installed from a remote computer via WMI and PowerShell Open PowerShell and run the following command: Get-WmiObject -Class “Win32_Product” -ComputerName RemoteHost -Credential localhost\LocalUser | Export-CSV (Join-Path $home “SoftwareList.csv”) Now to understand how this all ties together. Get-WmiObject -Class […]
Get list of software installed from a remote computer via WMIC from DOS
Get list of software installed from a remote computer Have you ever needed to get a quick local inventory of installed software across your network? You can use the WMIC command from the DOS CLI. Simply run the following command: wmic /user:”localhost\UserName” /password:”UsersPassword” /node:”RemoteHostname” product get name,version,vendor You can copy and paste this to a […]
Headaches of KB2919355 affecting Veeam and Unitrends to name a few
KB2919355 I’ve been plagued by a single backup failing over and over again for a while now, well since about April I believe. When logged into the Unitrends Appliance it shows the following error message for the VM in question: —– Error Messages —– Failed to setup up application volumes for snapshot. Error in getting […]