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Tag: WMI

Getting CIMInstance by Path

Posted on August 20, 2021August 20, 2021

I am a member of the PowerShell Cmdlet Working Group. We’ve been looking into this issue and it is an intriguing one. Enough so that I spent some time looking into it and writing up some test code. If you work with WMI/CIM this might be of interest to you. Personally, I never have had…

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Answering the CIM Directory Challenge

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

The last Iron Scripter challenge of 2020 was a big one. If you didn’t get a chance to work on it, see what you can come up with then come back to see my approach. As with many of the challenges, the goal isn’t to produce a production-ready PowerShell tool, but rather to push the…

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Creating CIM Scripts without Scripting

Posted on January 29, 2014January 29, 2014

When Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 came out, along with PowerShell 3.0, we got our hands on some terrific technology in the form of the CIM cmdlets. Actually, we got much more than people realize. One of the reasons there was a big bump in the number of shipping modules and cmdlets was CDXML….

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Get PowerShell Version with WMI

Posted on November 13, 2013November 14, 2013

With the release of PowerShell 4.0, it is possible you might end up with a mix of systems in your environment. I know I do because I do a lot of writing, testing and development that requires multiple versions in my test network. Recently I was doing some Group Policy work when I thought about…

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Friday Fun: Create a PowerShell Trace Window

Posted on November 1, 2013November 20, 2015

Way back in the day, it was all VBScript and HTAs for me. I built a number of HTA tools for other people to use. As you might expect they didn’t always work and troubleshooting something I couldn’t see was difficult. So I came up with a solution to use an Internet Explorer window as…

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Friday Fun: 50 Shades of PowerShell HTML Reports

Posted on October 25, 2013

I’ve been working on a project for a client that includes creating an HTML report, generated by PowerShell. I originally thought I would include a certain feature but decided against it. However, this is so cool I thought I’d share it with you as a Friday Fun article. I’ve done alot this year with some…

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Runspaces, Remoting and Workflow, Oh My!

Posted on October 18, 2013October 18, 2013

The other day on Twitter I saw a message about new script in the Microsoft Script Center on getting remote event logs with WMI. So I took a look at the script. If you take a minute to look at the script you’ll quickly realize this is not a script for beginners. My initial thought…

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Adding System Path to CIMInstance Objects

Posted on June 13, 2013

The other night when I presented for the Mississippi PowerShell Users’ Group, one of the members showed some PowerShell 3.0 code using the CIM cmdlets. At issue is how the CIM cmdlets handle the WMI system properties like __SERVER and __RELPATH. By default, those properties aren’t displayed, but they are captured in the CimSystemProperties property….

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Test 64-Bit Operating System

Posted on May 16, 2013

One of the great features of PowerShell is how much you can get from a relatively simple one line command. For example. you might want to test if a computer is running a 64-bit operating system. You can find out with a command as simple as this. PS C:\> (get-wmiobject win32_operatingsystem -comp chi-dc01).OsArchitecture -match “64”…

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Get CIMInstance from PowerShell 2.0

Posted on April 10, 2013May 6, 2014

I love the new CIM cmdlets in PowerShell 3.0. Querying WMI is a little faster because the CIM cmdlets query WMI using the WSMAN protocol instead of DCOM. The catch is that remote computers must be running PowerShell 3 which includes the latest version of the WSMAN protocol and the WinRM service. But if your…

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WMI Explorer from The PowerShell Guy

Posted on March 8, 2013March 12, 2013

Several years ago, The PowerShell Guy, aka MoW, wrote a fantastic graphical PowerShell script that was a WMI Explorer. With this script you could connect to a computer and namespace, browse classes and view instances. A great way for discovering things about WMI. However Marc has moved on to other things I think and his…

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PowerShell Morning Report with Credentials

Posted on February 22, 2013

I had an email about trying to use my Morning Report script to connect to machines that required alternate credentials. For example, you might have non-domain systems in a DMZ. Fair enough. Since most of the report script uses WMI, it wasn’t too hard to add a Credential parameter and modify the WMI code to…

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Find Files with WMI and PowerShell Revisited

Posted on February 4, 2013

Last week I posted a PowerShell function to find files using WMI. One of the comments I got was about finding files with wildcards. In WMI, we’ve been able to search via wildcards and the LIKE operator since the days of XP. In a WMI query we use the % as the wildcard character. Here’s…

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Building Excel Reports with PowerShell

Posted on January 30, 2013

Last year I wrote a series of articles for the Petri IT KnowledgeBase on using Microsoft Excel with PowerShell. Today I received an email from a reader who had a question about article that showed how to build a drive usage report in Excel. In the article I suggest it wouldn’t be too difficult to…

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Find Files with WMI and PowerShell

Posted on January 29, 2013

Finding files is one of those necessary evils for IT Pros. Sometimes we’re searching for a needle in a haystack. And it gets even more complicated when the haystacks are on 10 or 100 or 1000 remote computers. You might think using Get-ChildItem is your only option. Certainly it works, but if you are searching…

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