Working with profiles: 2 deleting profiles
I recently (1 June) showed how to discover the user profiles on your system. Now its time to delete them. function remove-profile { param ( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$username ) $user =...
View ArticleWMI property names
A question brought it home to me that WMI property names don’t always mean what you might think they mean – this is also true of other objects but I tripped over this one with WMI so we’ll stick with...
View ArticleWindows 8 Networking cmdlets
Windows 8 brings PowerShell v3 and a whole bunch of PowerShell modules. One such module is NETTCPIP and as the name suggests is about networking. PowerShell v3 automatically loads modules for you so...
View ArticleWindows 8 RTM startup
I was looking at Win32_OperatingSystem today and noticed that the last boot up time wasn’t right PS> Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | select LastBootUpTime LastBootUpTime ————–...
View ArticleFinding if the user associated with a profile is logged on
A forum question asked how to find if the user to whom a profile belonged was logged on. There isn’t an easy way as there isn’t an association between the profile and the log on session. There is a...
View ArticleFinding the drive letter of a mounted VHD
In Windows 8/2012 you can mount a VHD into the file system. Is there a way to discover the drive letter of the mounted VHD function get-mountedvhdDrive { $disks = Get-CimInstance -ClassName...
View ArticleWMI over WSMAN
Every time I look at PowerShell v3 I seem to find a new way to access WMI! I’ve covered the –ComputerName and –CimSession parameters before but to recap We duplicate the way Get-WmiObject works:...
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Jobs, WMI, CIM and more jobs
Background jobs were one of the most undervalued aspects of PowerShell v2. With the introduction of PowerShell v3 we get ways to schedule those jobs. In this post though I want to look at the new CIM...
View ArticleWMI –property parameter
One parameter that seems to get overlooked on Get-WmiObject is the –Property parameter. It is used to specify the properties you want returned. This is what you would normally get by default: PS>...
View ArticleNew about files
PowerShell v3 features updateable help. The help files are not quite complete at the moment but a recent update to the help that is available brought a couple of very useful files: about_WMI about_WQL...
View ArticleGet-CimClass changes
One thing that I don’t think I’ve mentioned is that the Get-CimClass output changed during the development process. In PowerShell v3 RTM you can dig into a WMI class like this Get-CimClass -ClassName...
View ArticleDisplaying data from multiple servers as HTML
A forum question regarding retrieving WMI based data from multiple servers and displaying it as HTML was interesting. I would approach it like this $servers = Get-Content -Path C:\scripts\servers.txt...
View ArticleNumber of processors in a box
WMI enables you find the number of processors in your system: PS> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem | fl Number* NumberOfLogicalProcessors : 2 NumberOfProcessors : 1 This works fine...
View ArticleAccount SIDs
A question on the forum asked about finding the accounts and SIDs on the local machine. function get-SID { param ( [string]$computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_AccountSID...
View ArticleAccount SIDs revisited
I realised there is an easier way to get the data function get-SID { param ( [string]$computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_AccountSID -ComputerName $computername | foreach {...
View ArticleAccount SIDs–hopefully my last word
Ok the embarrassing moral of this story is that you shouldn’t answer questions in a hurry at the end of the evening. 5 minutes after shutting down I realised that there is a far, far simpler way to get...
View ArticleFiltering
I’ve been grading the scripts in the warm up events for the Scripting Games and noticed a lot of people doing this: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk | where {$_.DriveType -eq 3} Ok now it works...
View ArticleCIM cmdlets and remote access
When you used the WMI cmdlets Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_logicalDisk -ComputerName RSLAPTOP01 You were using DCOM to access the remote machine. Even if you accessed the local machine you were using...
View ArticleNetwork adapters
The WMI classes Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration have seen a lot of use over the years. They can be a bit fiddly to use which is why the NetAdapter module in Windows 8/2012 is...
View ArticleNetwork Adapters–Disable/Enable
Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module PS> Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a Name InterfaceDescription Status —-...
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