Category Archives: Windows

Querying Active Directory with PowerShell

First run the following command as administrator to make Get-ADUser command work:

Get-WindowsCapability -Online | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "*ActiveDirectory.DS-LDS*"} | Add-WindowsCapability -Online
Path          :
Online        : True
RestartNeeded : False

Try the following commands:

$ad_ip = "10.15.7.15"
$ad_user = "administrator@itdrde.local"
Get-ADUser -Server $ad_ip -Credential $ad_user -Properties *
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How to determine device model with PowerShell

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ComputerSystem
Name             PrimaryOwnerName          Domain                   TotalPhysicalMemory      Model                    Manufacturer
----             ----------------          ------                   -------------------      -----                    ------------
DESKTOP-0DRJUG2  dmitriano@outlook.com     WORKGROUP                34213654528              Z390 AORUS PRO           Gigabyte Technology C...

Using Active Directory Users & Computers

I installed this

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Working with Git in Python on Windows

Disable Python aliases:

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Installing Windows Sandbox

In addition to enabling Sandbox (a special purpose limited container) you also need to enable Windows Hypervisor Platform and also Virtual Machine platform:

Deleting partitions with diskpart on Windows

PowerShell as Administrator:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.3636

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP-0DRJUG2

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          476 GB   476 GB        *
  Disk 1    Online         5589 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 2    Online         5589 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 3    Online          931 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 4    Online           14 GB      0 B
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Building QT 6.6.2 for Windows and Android

I installed MS Visual Studio, Android Studio and the following tools:

cmake-3.24.2-windows-x86_64
nasm-2.15.05
ninja-win
Python35
Strawberry
VulkanSDK
x86_64-12.2.0-release-win32-seh-rt_v10-rev0

and built QT for Windows with the following commands:

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Configuring RAID on Auros Z390 mainboard

I installed Intel RST driver:

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App execution aliases on Windows

Turn them off to make Python work:

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Running GUI apps on WSL

Updating existing WSL installation

I updated WSL according to this MS guide:

wsl --update
wsl --shutdown
wsl --version
WSL version: 1.2.0.0
Kernel version: 5.15.90.1
WSLg version: 1.0.51
MSRDC version: 1.2.3770
Direct3D version: 1.608.2-61064218
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.19045.2604
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