CMD Archive - The Windows Pope

Recycle IIS app pools

25. January 2021 Jorn Walter General

Reading time <1 Minute Recycling application pools With the help of Powershell or CMD, recycling app pools is a breeze.

Windows Exchange Server tips and solutions

Autostart LaunchEMS Exchange Core Server

18. November 2020 Jorn Walter scripts

Reading time <1 Minute Exchange Management Shell Autostart On core servers in particular, it makes sense to have the EMS started automatically before going through the CMD.

One time reboot

13. September 2020 Jorn Walter General

Reading time <1 Minute Restart according to plan If you want to set a planned reboot quickly, you can send one of these commands via CMD. That's a lot more pleasant

Preventing user access to the registry cmd group policy editor

Prohibit users from accessing the registry

10. September 2020 Jorn Walter Windows 10

Reading time 2 Minutes Preventing user access to the registry A simple user can add or change entries in the user context. That should be prohibited. As long as he

Microsoft Print To PDF reinstallation does not work

Microsoft PDF Printer disappeared

6. September 2020 Jorn Walter Windows 10

Reading time <1 Minute Activate Microsoft Print to PDF It can happen that the PDF printer is no longer available and also no longer operates in the conventional way

Microsoft has released Windows Terminal 1.0

Windows Terminal 1.0 Build 2020

11. August 2020 Jorn Walter General

Reading time 2 Minutes Windows Terminal 1.0 One console for everything. The new Windows Terminal 1.0 combines various consoles in a single interface. The command prompt, PowerShell and WSL

MetaData Cleanup of a Domain Controller

6. August 2020 Jorn Walter Windows Server 2019

Reading time <1 Minute Metadata cleanup in the Active Directory Domain Services If a domain controller (DCBS2) could not be removed conventionally, for example because there was a defect, see above

Office 365 2019 2016 fallback

16 JULY 2020 Jorn Walter Office & Exchange

Reading time <1 Minute Back to the previous office version Anyone who has problems with their Click-2-run Office can, as Günter Born already mentioned in his article, initiate a fallback.

Getting Windows ready Don't turn off your computer

22th of June 2020 Jorn Walter General

Reading time 2 Minutes Windows is being prepared. Do not turn off the computer. The message is of course annoying if you have to wait 30 minutes or even hours. The problem

Disable automatic updates for Windows Server 2019

19th of June 2020 Jorn Walter Windows Server 2019

Reading time <1 Minute Disabling Windows updates for servers If you want to prevent Windows updates from being downloaded and installed in an uncontrolled manner, you can use sconfig to prevent this quickly and easily.

Manipulate hosts file and add block rule to the firewall

13th of June 2020 Jorn Walter Network

Reading time <1 Minute Write Record to Hosts File With this batch file we add any entries to the hosts file. This batch file does not have to be executed with elevated rights.

Add Windows service trigger

25. May 2020 Jorn Walter Windows Server 2019

Reading time <1 Minute Add Trigger to Windows Service A Windows service can have different start types, the values range from 0-5. 0. Boot 1. System 2. Automatic 3. Manual