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Getting CPU load percentage is quite helpful in determining whether the server or computer is on a heavy performance, this would also indicate whether there is a need to increase the memory or add another CPU to the machine. Of course, when the CPU has a lot of load, performance will be impacted directly. Which basically means that the machine will not be working perfectly. Checking the CPU load will also help to troubleshoot, if the services on the machine or server is experiencing slow performance. Here’s the wmic command line which check the CPU Load Percentage. wmic cpu list status Sample output: Availability   CpuStatus   CurrentVoltage   DeviceID   ErrorCleared   3                              1                      9     ...

A quick tutorial on how to use Rclone. Rclone is a good tool that is cross platform can be used on Windows or Linux. Rclone can be used to sync and copy to AWS, Google drive and other cloud services. To start using rclone it must be configured. Typing: rclone config Rclone config command will bring out the menu to config rclone. (see image below)   For example, if you need to configure rclone to connect to AWS S3. Select “n” which means new remote. Then type the name of the remote connection, which later can be used when syncing or copying files.  See image example below: There will be some few questions after typing the name, just follow the on-screen questions and configured it for S3 settings. Once the settings have been placed, rclone is now ready to sync or copy. Rclone sync as stated on the manual, that the source and destination will be the same even if it means deleting files on the destination. Basically...

Office 365 PowerPoint shows an error contact system administrator when opening the file. The error if interpreted literally shows that a system administrator is needed to fix the issue due to a security or permissions issue. Notification errors or any errors that are displayed to inform the user that some processes have gone wrong while processing or opening the file are quite helpful to begin troubleshooting. But some errors are quite generic or does not really point to what type of solution should be done to resolve the issue. Literally interpreting the error to resolve the issue sometimes work but sometimes it won’t work as well. For this error it seems like a permission issue but it’s not. The first thing to try to eliminate the issue is to open the file manually, like going to “File”, select “Open”, then browse to the folder location of the file and open the file. If the file can be opened, then security issue or permission issue is not a concern. ...

How to get IP Address via command line using WMIC? Get IP Address of   remote computer. Get IP Address using WMIC.       wmic nicconfig get IPAddress,ServiceName Sample output: IPAddress                                       ServiceName                                                 kdnic {"169.254.0.241", "fe80::26d0:eff6:cc27:e1"}    VBoxNetAdp {"192.168.11.6", "fe80::8798:acfe:6ee9:8b7c"}    athr                                                 L1C                                             ...

Listing all Active Directory Domain Accounts using WMIC By using WMIC you can get all the AD domain accounts very quickly. WMIC is an acronym for Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line Here's how we do it. Just open a command prompt, no need to be an elevated command prompt. At C prompt type: C:\>wmic /node:domain_name /output:d:\usr.txt "useraccount" get Change output drive to any drive you want the output to be exported. Note that the word "USERACCOUNT" has no space, it is  one word. After exporting the file. Open the text or the output file using Excel. Open Excel, press Control+O then the open Window will show. I'm using Excel 2010, so go to All Files and select "Text Files". Follow the on screen instruction and click on "Finish". Then you will be able to see all the "Domain User Accounts", "SIDs", "Description", "Lock Out Status" and other details. ...