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A simple powershell script to look up server hardware and OS information

This is a simple powershell script to query and display hardware and OS information from a remote computer.

It uses CIM (Common Information Model) that is available since Powershell version 3 so as long as you have version 3 and up, you should be able to run this script against any server that you have access to.

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2019-08-14 (first published: )

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Look up AD user properties using powershell

I realize that this is a bit of a lengthy script for something that you can use a one liner in the power shell:

Example:

Get-ADUser

But I needed to highlight certain properties of given user and take certain actions based on the values. And the result is this power shell script.

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2019-07-15 (first published: )

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Encoding URLs

I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:

CREATE TABLE Response
( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY
, ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000)
)
GO
If I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use?

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