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How to quickly find the path of exe / binary / command files on you computer

Posted on May 9, 2025May 6, 2025 by Patrik

A few days ago I wanted to find where exactly a binary/exe "command" was located on the disk, specifically nuget. I tried checking the path variable but was unable to find anything useful. Turns out that once again Powershell had a quick solution. I thought Get-Command only showed you Powershell cmlets, that's wrong. It works…

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Installing all drivers in a driverpack folder using Powershell

Posted on November 8, 2024November 6, 2024 by Patrik

Sometimes you just want to do a "quick n dirty" installation of all the drivers in a driverpack. When doing so Powershell is your best friend. Simply navigate to the folder and run this command Hope it was helpful, happy scripting!

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How to invoke a Task Sequence on your machine using Windows Powershell

Posted on September 13, 2024September 10, 2024 by Patrik

For one reason or another you may want to trigger a Task Sequence to run on a machine. Here is a function for Windows Powershell that does just that. It can take a deploymentId or a packageId, both of which you can find in the CM Console. The script needs to run on the machine…

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Powershell script for getting your Configuration Manager servers

Posted on January 29, 2024September 5, 2024 by Patrik

Something I find very hard to do in practice is keeping documentation up to date, if you don't automate this it simply will not get done. In this post I am sharing a PowerShell function that can be used to get all your Configuration Manager servers and what roles they have, great for building automated…

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How to download CMTrace from Microsoft

Posted on February 2, 2023May 6, 2025 by Patrik

Update 2025-05-06: While not from Microsoft the company PatchMyPC has uploaded cmtrace on their website, if you trust them (I do) it is much quicker then the original method from Microsoft. https://patchmypc.com/cmtrace I was recently faced with a problem, I wanted needed CMTrace to read a logfile from one of my scripts on a computer…

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Use Powershell to create a "fake" program in the programs and features list for indexing purposes

Posted on March 13, 2020September 5, 2024 by Patrik

For a reason I won't go in to here I recently had to create a fake program in the programs and features list of a computer. One example when this might be useful is for indexing purposes but there are other usecases for it as well. Since this list is saved in the registry adding…

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