Install Windows Terminal on Windows Server 2022

Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). This terminal is beautiful, you can use multiple terminals in one application with multiple tabs. However, Windows Terminal is not installed by default on Windows Server 2022, thus you … Read more

Find Your System Service Tag Using Command Prompt

Service Tag

Symptom You need locate your system’s service tag (also referred to as the serial number) using Command Prompt. Resolutions Type cmd in the Windows search bar at the bottom-left of the screen, then select Command Prompt from the list of results. In the Command Prompt window, type wmic bios get serialnumber and press Enter. The Service Tag (Serial Number) appears as shown … Read more

Showing Disk Performance information on Task Manager

Multiple Monitor Image

Since Windows Server 2012R2, the disk performance information on task manager was disabled because of performance impact on collecting disk metrics on the server. You can use Resource Monitor to check Disk IO Usage. However, you can enable the Disk Performance monitor on the Task Manager. Enable Disk Performance Monitor Below is the step to … Read more

One liner command to get VM list detail on Hyper-V Cluster

Command prompt

In this post, I will share a command to get the VM list detail that includes VM Name, CPU Count, IP Addresses, VLAN ID, and Memory assigned. The command includes the command below: Get-VM: This command gets the virtual machines from one or more Hyper-V hosts Get-ClusterNode: This command to gets information about one or … Read more

Expand three dots (Elipsis) on PowerShell Result Console

PowerShell

Sometimes when you receive the result from PowerShell command, there are three dots (Elipsis) “…” that truncate the result. In this article, I will show you how to expand three dots (Elipsis) on PowerShell result console. For more detail, please see the example below: As you can see, there are three dots (Elipsis) behind “\Exchange … Read more

How to check AD Schema Version using PowerShell Command

Active Directory

In this article, I will show you how to check the AD Schema Version using Powershell Command. First, you need to log into your Active Directory Domain Controller.  If you have more than one domain controller, you should log in to the forest root domain controller. Open PowerShell with Administrator Permission If there is a pop-up … Read more