It has cropped up from time to time that we need to retrieve information, in this example, the MAC address from remotely located workstations.
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While, as it goes in the world of system administration, many ways to skin such a cat, I am going to leverage both the power and versatility of Powershell combined with the vast information warehouse that is WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation).
- PowerShell is an amazing command line, scripting & programming tool that I have used a few times on Microsoft Windows. PowerShell Core is now available for Mac OS and so today I am going to look at installing it on my MacBook. Note: I am installing PowerShell Core onto Mac OS Mojave (specifically Mac OS.
- Jul 02, 2012 Scanning for IP addresses, MAC addresses, host names, and open ports is a way of finding the available computers on a network and finding out which service each computer publishes. In this blog, we will talk about how this can be performed by using Windows PowerShell.
If your remote computer is a basic configuration then we can start of something simple
In the above example, we are using the gwmi cmdlet (alias of Get-WMIObject and are interchangeable), pointing to a remote workstation with -ComputerName switch, filtered out information requested with the -Class switch, wrapping it all in brackets so we can retrieve just the returned Powershell MACAddress property.
Hopefully you will be returned a MAC Address.
However, you may find that if the device has multiple network adapters (such as teredo tunnelling for IPv6, hypervisor bridges, VPN TAPs) you are getting more noise than needed:
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Never fear though, we have the technology. If you know more information about the network adapter that you want the MAC address from, we can apply filtering to the original query to bring precious to our result.
Killuminati meaning. If you know the IP address of the network adapter:
Or if you know the type of network adapter:
There you have it. A quick little one liner that taps into the vast depth of information from the WMI database via Powershell power. It is certainly worth playing around with the properties that the above WMI query can provide in return as the information stored is vast and can lead to endless amounts of utility in your future Powershell magic.
August 22, 2016 Powershell For Mac Office 365
It’s a weird thing to say, but we can install PowerShell on Mac after the announcement from Microsoft that PowerShell will be available for both Macintosh and Linux. It’s pretty easy to accomplish but having a great scripting language like PowerShell available for Mac is really cool and deserves a blog post. I mean, now I don’t even need to fire up my Windows virtual machine just to run PowerShell!
To get started, download the OSX .pkg file from the github page: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/
Once the file is downloaded you’ll need to find the download and right click and choose open. This will start the installation process.
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Click Next on the Introduction Page.
Select the Destination Disk and click Next.
Select the installation location and click Install.
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Enter in the administrative credentials to install the software and click Install Software.
When the installation is finished click Close.
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Once the install is complete, open a Terminal Window and run “powershell”. Once you do this, you’ll be able to execute PowerShell commands. The example below I ran “get-host” to find the PowerShell version that was installed. I will note that the Install-Module commands don’t work quite yet so adding things like PowerCLI and AzureRM modules won’t be super easy to accomplish yet. This will probably change soon. After all, this is a very early release.