In case you haven’t noticed, I like to use free tools that allow me to manage systems remotely. I also ran an internal forum board with this exact information. But due to potential problems, I am disbanding the internal and only relying on this site.<\/p>\n
MMC is built into Windows
\nSSH is mostly built into Linux
\nSSH is mostly built into Macintosh<\/p>\n
PSTools Suite is probably the best I’ve come across – free and is now updated by Microsoft.<\/p>\n
Pslist and Pskill are both very useful, but Psexec takes the cake. Pslist shows all running programs on a system: Here are some simple commands I use every day: ***EDIT*** In case you haven’t noticed, I like to use free tools that allow me to manage systems remotely. I also ran an internal forum board with this exact information. But due to potential problems, I am disbanding the internal and only relying on this site. MMC is built into Windows SSH is mostly built into … Continue reading PSExec<\/span>
\npslist \\\\computername<\/code>
\nPskill will kill remote programs (or PIDs) on any system assuming the system isn’t locked up beyond the system services functionality.
\npskill \\\\computername PID_or_Processname<\/code><\/p>\n
\nAnalyze remote system’s HD to see if it needs to be defragged
\npsexec \\\\somemachine -s -d defrag.exe c: -a<\/code>
\nForce remote system’s HD to defrag
\npsexec \\\\somemachine -s -d defrag.exe c: -f<\/code>
\nRun Internet Explorer and open it.thelibrarie.com website
\npsexec \\\\somemachine -i -d \"C:\\program files\\internet explorer\\iexplore.exe\" http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com<\/code>
\nInstall an MSI program
\npsexec -s -i \\\\somemachine msiexec -i c:\\locationofmsi.msi<\/code>
\nOpen the Add\/Remove Programs Applet
\npsexec -i -s \\\\somemachine control.exe appwiz.cpl<\/code><\/p>\n
\nLooks like this really doesn’t work much on Windows 7 due to security restrictions. I end up using pslist \\\\computername to list the running processes, and then taskkill \/S computername \/PID processID \/F to actually kill the running process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"