Welcome everyone!

Today i’m going to share my top 10 (beginner-friendly) Powershell commands that i use quite frequently.

I hope that you will find these commands useful.

 1. Connect to a remote computer:

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName "Computer1"

 

2. Get events from EventViewer:

Get-WinEvent -computername "Computer1" -FilterHashTable @{ LogName = "System"; StartTime = "2020-02-12"}

 

3. Get OS BuildNumber:

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName "Computer1" | Select BuildNumber

 

4. Get OS ReleaseID:

(Get-ItemProperty -Path ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion’).ReleaseId

 

5. Get values from the registry:

Get-ChildItem -Path 'HKLM:\PATH\TO\KEY'

 

6. Set values in the registry:

New-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\PATH\TO\KEY\" -Name 'Flags' -PropertyType DWORD -Value "1337"

 

7. Show the latest installed updates (KB’s):

(Get-Hotfix | sort installedon)

 

8. Get serialnumber (CimInstance):

(Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_BIOS).Serialnumber

 

9. Get Bios version (CimInstance):

(Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_BIOS).SMBIOSBIOSVersion

 

10. Get computer model (CimInstance):

(Get-WmiObject Win32_Computersystem).Model

 

Comment down below if you have any questions! 🙂