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Tag Archives: Get-WMIObject
The PowerShell Morning Report
I love how easy it is to manage computers with Windows PowerShell. It is a great reporting tool, but often I find people getting locked into one approach. I’m a big believer in flexibility and re-use and using objects in … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Scripting, Windows 7, Windows Server, WMI
Tagged ConvertTo-HTML, Get-WMIObject, HTML, PowerShell, Scripting, WMI
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Friday Fun Drive Usage Console Graph
I think you’ll like this. Normally, I prefer my PowerShell commands to write objects to the pipeline. But there’s nothing wrong with sending output directly to the console, as long as you know that the output is intended only for … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Scripting, WMI
Tagged console, Get-WMIObject, Group-Object, PowerShell, Write-Host
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Get Shared Resource
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
Get Local Administrators with WMI and PowerShell
Earlier this week I was helping someone out on a problem working with the local administrators group. There are a variety of ways to enumerate the members of a local group. The code he was using involved WMI. I hadn’t … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting, WMI
Tagged Administrators, functions, Get-WMIObject, Invoke-Command, Jobs, PowerShell, Scripting, WMI
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Get WMI Namespace
PowerShell and WMI just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly, beer and pretzels, or salt and pepper. However, discovering things about WMI isn’t always so easy. There are plenty of tools and scripts that will help you … Continue reading
Posted in WMI
Tagged functions, Get-WMIObject, Invoke-Expression, PowerShell, PSCredential, WMI
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