Most of the day-to-day operations of managing an Active Directory environment can be done from the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the commands available from a command prompt can be very powerful ...

When Windows breaks badly, GUIs won't save you.

Let's face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse a ...

Moving from Windows to Linux? Here are the networking commands to use instead—plus a WSL bonus.

While it may not always be the best choice in Windows, there are certain things you can only do from the command line. We've talked about a few command line essentials before, like using tracert to ...

Just spent some time figuring it out. Figure I'd put it here for anybody else who may care and for future reference for myself in case I am on a system without access to my normal notes. There are two ...

Windows, Microsoft, and third-party software makers supply numerous useful tools for the command line — but these are not always easy to use. Graphical user interfaces (GUI), on the other hand, ...

The following are the various command-line tools that you can use to do various functions with Microsoft software update packages. This command-line tool helps you get help in the form of a dialog box ...