Since the first PowerShell release, Microsoft has included support for WMI, the de facto Windows management system since the days of Windows NT. Back then, PowerShell included several cmdlets that let ...
PowerShell 3.0 brings us into the world of CIM which I think you'll find to be a much easier approach for systems management using WMI. On the surface the syntax hasn't really changed much. We have a ...
There has been something bugging me lately about PowerShell. Actually, this something has probably always bugged me. But, when I saw this series: “Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts” on the ...
In this first part of a six-part series, Jeffrey goes through some of the basics of the CIM standard and its role with the Windows Management Instrumentation. It is probably a safe bet to say that IT ...
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a set of specifications from Microsoft for consolidating the management of devices and applications in a network from Windows computing systems. WMI ...