Applying updates through WSUS
I like to keep the virtual machines in my test lab up to date so have a WSUS server to download and manage updates. The difficulty is applying the updates. With Windows 2012 R2 I used a module that...
View Articlewmic deprecated
I saw a forum post today where the question involved the use of the wmi command line tool wmic. Wmic was deprecated in Windows Server 2012 –...
View ArticleFind the logged on user
One method of finding the logged on users is to use CIM $ComputerName = $env:COMPUTERNAME Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Process -ComputerName $ComputerName -Filter "Name = 'explorer.exe'" | foreach...
View ArticleFinding a CIM class
One of the problems you might find is finding a CIM class. You know its name but you don’t know which namespace its in. The old WMI cmdlets allow you to search the namespaces recursively PS>...
View ArticleLinking disks, partitions and logical drives
A question of the forums was asking about discovering disk information. They were trying to pipe the output of Get-WmiObject into another Get-WmiObject. that won’t work. There is another way. On...
View ArticleCIM not WMI
I still see a lot of people using the WMI cmdlets – Get-WmiObject etc. You really should be using CIM nit WMI. In other words use Get-CimInstance rather than get-WmiObject etc etc. Why do I say that?...
View ArticleExamples of replacing WMI cmdlet with CIM cmdlet
Following my last post I was asked about these Examples of replacing WMI cmdlet with CIM cmdlet. Example 1 gwmi win32_operatingsystem -computername $Computer -credential $creds, $cs = New-CimSession...
View ArticleWMI and CIM accelerators
In PowerShell an accelerator is a shortcut to a .NET type. The WMI accelerators have been around since PowerShell v1. The WMI accelerators were heavily used in v1 fill some of the gaps in cmdlet...
View Articleuser logon time
Saw an interesting question about user logon time. How can you tell the logged on user and when they logged on $logon = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_LogonSession | sort StartTime -Descending |...
View ArticleFile searches with WMI
I saw a question about file searches with WMI. If you just know the file name it’s a very slow process. Painfully slow. If you have an idea about the folder its much quicker. function get-wmifile {...
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