Month: October 2022

Oct 14 2022 October 14, 2022 October 14, 2022 NoComment by Christian Casutt

Wake-on-LAN using PowerShell

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Wake-on-LAN and the Magic Packet The format of a Wake-on-LAN (WOL) magic packet is defined as a byte array with 6 bytes of value 255 (0xFF) and 16 repetitions of the target machine’s 48-bit (6-byte) MAC address. (See Wikipedia article) Wake-on-LAN works by broadcasting the magic packet to all network devices in a network. The…

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Oct 10 2022 October 10, 2022 October 10, 2022 NoComment by Christian Casutt

Chocolatey on Windows

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Introduction Chocolatey is a Windows counterpart to the Linux apt package manager or yum package manager. The software offers a CLI-based package installation and management in Windows with the community-maintained package repository. In this tutorial, you will learn to install Chocolatey on Windows 10 and learn basic Chocolatey commands. Prerequisites Windows 7+/Windows 2003+ (including Server Core, but excluding…

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