How to install a Windows feature on server 2012 using Powershell.

This Powershell command will install a Windows feature on your Windows 8.1 or server 2012 machine. I am only using the telnet server as an example. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Install-WindowsFeature telnet-server Success Restart Needed Exit Code Feature Result ——- ————– ——— ————– True No Success {Telnet Server} This is how easy it is to install a … Read more

How to get hardware information about your network adapters on Windows Server 2012.

Windows Server 2012 R2 supports quite a few cmdlets that allow the user to gain quite a bit of information about the networking configuration of the server machine. Here are a few examples with output. This command: Get-NetAdapterHardwareInfo gets hardware information about your wireless adapters. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-NetAdapterHardwareInfo   Name Segment Bus Device Function Slot … Read more

More useful Windows Server 2012 CMD commands.

The route PRINT command shows the routing table. This gives some insight into your network connections. C:\Users\Administrator>route PRINT =========================================================================== Interface List 18…1e 0f 6e 5d e1 25 ……Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter 13…4c 0f 6e 5d e1 25 ……Qualcomm Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter 12…88 ae 1d 6d 09 bc ……Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet … Read more

How to enter the product key in Windows server 2012 R2.

Entering the product key in server 2012 sometimes is fraught with frustration. You can try to enter it via the CMD command prompt with this command. PS C:\Users\Administrator> slmgr -ipk XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXPS C:\Users\Administrator> slmgr -ipk XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX and you get an error. The best way is to use this command. PS C:\Users\Administrator> sluiPS C:\Users\Administrator> slui This command … Read more

So-called 2012 apocalypse tomorrow. What are we going to come up with next?

The so-called December 2012 Apocalypse is tomorrow. This will be a non-event but what will we come up with next? Sure the Sun will burn up the Earth in about 5 billion years and the planet Earth will be unlivable for multi-cellular life in about 300 million years. So the Earth will end eventually; either … Read more

Good Christmas gift ideas and the world will not end in 2012.

The best thing to purchase if you are interested in Christmas gifts for a computer user in your household; other than a Laptop which is very useful these days would have to be an external hard disk that they could use to backup their precious data. Backing up data that you have saved on your … Read more

Purchasing a new desktop computer in 2012. The technology has come so far.

The desktop computing platform has gone through a massive change in 20 years, with the climb in power between the 8088 and the Intel 286 computers of old with processor clock speeds less than 10 Megahertz to the multi-core i7 beasts that we have now; with more RAM than a 486 had hard disk space … Read more

Giant structures in space swallowing distant galactic clusters. Is this another Universe?

Astronomers have made an amazing discovery, a group of 10,000 distant galaxy clusters that are rushing towards the same point in the sky. The implications of this is that there are unimaginably large structures in the distant areas of the Universe that are beyond our sight. The visible Universe is only 14 billion light-years across … Read more