You can use the "shutdown" command to shutdown or restart a Windows Operating System from the command line. This command works from a regular command prompt or from PowerShell. Here are the commands needed:

To shutdown: shutdown -s -f

To restart: shutdown -r -f

Here are a few useful notes on some of the options:

-f forces all applications to close. This is optional, but will keep hung applications from holding up the shutdown/reboot process (epecially useful for terminal services)

-t is used to wait X number of seconds before shutdown/reboot. For example, "-t 0" will start the process right away, while "-t 100" will wait 100 secons.

If you are needing to list only the directories in a folder, this can be accomplished with the DIR command in Windows. By default, DIR will list all files and folders. To list only directories, run DIR with the following options:

dir /AD

This will give you a list of all the directories in the folder where the command was ran.

Your organization may be facing a common compliance problem, having many of your users with the "Password Never Expires" option set in Active Directory. For any number of reasons, you may need to get a list of users with this option set. You may also need to disable this option for all users. Below are examples on how to list all users with this option enabled, and how to disable this option for all users:

The one-liner commands below can be ran from the command prompt as administrator.

To list all Active Directory users with the "Password Never Expires" option set:

dsquery *  -filter "(&(objectCategory=person)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=65536))" -limit 0

To turn off "Password Never Expires" for all Active Directory users:

dsquery *  -filter "(&(objectCategory=person)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=65536))" -limit 0 | dsmod user -pwdneverexpires no

**These commands may span multiple lines on your screen, but they are actually one line, and are designed to be ran as one command