Most of the day-to-day operations of managing an Active Directory environment can be done from the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the commands available from a command prompt can be very powerful ...

The only Linux command you need for monitoring network traffic - and how to use it ...

Just spent some time figuring it out. Figure I'd put it here for anybody else who may care and for future reference for myself in case I am on a system without access to my normal notes. There are two ...

We're big proponents of "work smarter, not harder" here at XDA, and that means figuring out how to automate as much of our ...

Windows provides network administrators with a set of scripts and command line utilities to automate the installation and configuration of network printers. Network administrators can incorporate ...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nmap, the open-source network mapping tool that became the standard used by many IT professionals, but that can be a bit much if you only need to do general ...

Windows, Microsoft, and third-party software makers supply numerous useful tools for the command line — but these are not always easy to use. Graphical user interfaces (GUI), on the other hand, ...

While it may not always be the best choice in Windows, there are certain things you can only do from the command line. We've talked about a few command line essentials before, like using tracert to ...

If you are a system administrator, IT professional, or a power user it is common to find yourself using the command prompt to perform administrative tasks in Windows. Whether it be copying files, ...

Though most business users rarely use it, Microsoft Windows has a text-based Command Line interface in addition to the usual graphical user interface of buttons, windows and menus. Most often, ...