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Helpful Powershell commands

Add a computer to the domain

Add-Computer -DomainName corp.contoso.com

I've found the FQDN is required in my environment.

It will also prompt for the credentials.

Relevant StackOverflow

Export a message trace in Exchange to a .csv file

Get-MessageTrace -SenderAddress kukuri@internetcompany.com -StartDate 12/20/2017 -EndDate
12/22/2017 | Select-Object received, recipientaddress, subject | Export-Csv report-csv.csv

Open a remote share

Since cd is an alias for Set-Location, you can change directory to the UNC path like so:

cd \\server\share

Rename computer

Rename-Computer WS-238SH67

Renames nicely in Active Directory as well.

Restart computer

Restart-Computer

Check if a disk is a HDD or SSD

Get-PhysicalDisk
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