Tag Archives: WMI

Get Process Owner

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

I’ve been working on my second training course for Train Signal on managing Windows Server 2008 with Windows PowerShell, specifically the lesson on managing processes. I thought I’d share a little tidbit I worked out. In fact, I hope you’ll … Continue reading →

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Get Shared Resource

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

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 →

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Find Non System Service Accounts with PowerShell and WMI

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

As easy as Get-Service is to use in PowerShell, it has one limitation for IT Pros: it can’t show you what account the service is running under. In old school terms, “What is the service account?” Fortunately you can get … Continue reading →

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Get Properties with Values

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

One of my nuisance issues when using WMI with Windows PowerShell, is that when looking at all properties I have to wade though many that have no value. I’d prefer to only view properties that have a populated value. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Get Local Administrators with WMI and PowerShell

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

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 →

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