Category Archives: WMI

Friday Fun Perf Counters with Write-Progress

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

While working on my course for TrainSignal on managing Windows Servers with PowerShell, I came up with an interesting use of the Write-Progress cmdlet. I was working on the performance monitoring lesson and realized I could use Write-Progress as rudimentary … Continue reading →

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Filter Left

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

When writing WMI queries expressions in Windows PowerShell, it is recommended to use WMI filtering, as opposed to getting objects and then filtering with Where-Object. I see expressions like this quite often: get-wmiobject win32_process -computer $c | where {$_.name -eq … Continue reading →

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Compress Files By Extension

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

I never seem to build my test virtual machines with enough disk space. Which means at some point I start dealing with space issues and resort to all sorts of hacks to buy myself a little time. One thing I … Continue reading →

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Get Process Owner

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

I’ve been working on my second training course for Train Signal on managing Windows Server 2008 with Windows PowerShell, specifically the lesson on managing processes. I thought I’d share a little tidbit I worked out. In fact, I hope you’ll … Continue reading →

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Get Shared Resource

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

I was poking around WMI the other day in PowerShell and was intrigued by the Win32_Share class. This is a great way to find out what items are shared on a server such as printers and folders, although it’s not … Continue reading →

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