Remote administration of Windows systems via the command line

It seems like almost every operating system has many hidden tools, small stones, which, if you know of them, make your life easier by solving problems or to help streamline your work. Anyone who has visited one of my seminars, I know all about the centralization of system management tools such as SSH, Webmin, Group Policy, Zenworks, Dameware, pt360, or any of the many other management tools that you can work as efficiently as possible . In this article I willTo show you a set of Windows tools that you made on remote systems from your desktop management to enable the command-line interface. (Let's Be Real: The idea is to allow us to do that Friday at 3:00 pm tee time, instead of working in the night and on weekends! Even if you're not a golfer, it is a metaphor for the and the work does not Get in the way of life.)

You're probably on the work of Mark Russinovich's SysInternals on its website (now a part of the Microsoft TechNet Web site) inCreating great tools for managing Windows systems. You may be aware, however, by his PsTools suite. This collection of command line tools, you can perform many functions on remote systems from the command line. They are light, they are very easy to install on your system, it requires no installation on the remote system, and they work very well.

Here is a list of tools and what they do (taken from the website PsTools):

-PsExec - execute processesremote
-PsFile - shows files opened remotely
-PsGetSid - display the SID of a computer or a user
-PsInfo - List information about a system
-PsKill - kill processes by name or process ID
-PsList - list detailed information about processes
-PsLoggedOn - see who is logged locally and on the sharing of resources (full source code)
-PsLogList - dump event logs
-PsPasswd - changes account passwords
PsService-see - and control services
-PsShutdown --shut down and restart a computer is optional
-PsSuspend - interrupts processes

The name "Ps" comes from the UNIX / Linux "ps" command that lists running processes. Anyone who has worked a lot with Linux or UNIX commands like "ps-aux" see what is running, process IDs, resource utilization, etc. It seems strangely fitting that Mark would be this powerful suite of Windows tools according to Name most commonly used 'nix commands.

This collection of tools that fall under theHeadline: "What took me so long to find this too?" To find the easiest way for you, it is the "PsTools Google." Then you can download from the TechNet Web site.

I bet you find it helpful!