Windows 10 – Remote administration through PowerShell – Part 1

This post is collection of useful PowerShell commands which will simplify your day to day desktop support administration tasks. The tasks can be performed remotely without taking remote control of the machine and without impacting user productivity. Please ensure you change the computer name used in below examples.

Check, Start and Stop Windows Services

Check status of Windows service

Get-Service -ComputerName DESKTOP-VND43IR -Name BITS

Start a Windows service

Get-Service -ComputerName DESKTOP-VND43IR -Name BITS | Start-Service 

Stop a Windows service

Get-Service -ComputerName DESKTOP-VND43IR -Name BITS | Stop-Service 

Get Computer Details

The WMI class win32_ComputerSystem hold information about computer system. These information can be retrieved using Get-WMIObject cmdlet.

Get all details stored in win32_computersystem WMI class

Get-WmiObject -class win32_computersystem  -ComputerName DESKTOP-VND43IR | select * 

Get logged on user name

Get-WmiObject -class win32_computersystem  -ComputerName DESKTOP-VND43IR | select username

Get computer make and model details

Get-WmiObject -class win32_computersystem  -ComputerName DESKTOP-VND43IR | select Manufacturer,model 

Get physical memory size in GB

Get-WMIObject -class Win32_PhysicalMemory -ComputerName DESKTOP-VND43IR | Measure-Object -Property capacity -Sum | % {[Math]::Round(($_.sum / 1GB),2)} 

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