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Displaying 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 $data = @( ) foreach ( $server in $servers )...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 1:12 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, PowerShell V3

WMI 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 that. PS> Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Desktop...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2012 10:07 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, PowerShell V3

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 = Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_UserAccount -Filter...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2012 1:27 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, PowerShell V3

Working with WMI methods

Many WMI classes have methods. Methods allow us to perform some action on the object. A recent question on the forum about using methods made me realise that there are still a lot of people following the old VBScript way of doing things. We will experiment...

Published Fri, May 05 2012 1:00 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, PowerShell V3

Using Invoke-WmiMethod to set the DNS servers

In the last post I showed that there was an issue with the way the SetDNSServerSearchOrder of the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class worked This would work $nic = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter "Index=7"...

Published Sun, May 05 2012 1:41 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, Networking, PowerShell V3

PowerShell and WMI

My latest book – PowerShell and WMI – has gone to the printers. Expect it soon at a book shop near you. www.manning.com/powershellandwmi for more details Read More...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2012 11:18 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, Books, PowerShell V3

Get the logged on users

Do you know which users are logged on to your systems? Want to find out? function get-logedonuser { param ( [string] $computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogonSession -ComputerName $computername | foreach { $data = $_ $id = Read...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2012 3:01 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI

UK PowerShell Group–December 2011

When: Thursday, Dec 15, 2011 7:30 PM (GMT) Where: Virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Discover how to use the WSMAN cmdlets to retreive WMI information and see a demo of the new WMI API's CIM cmdlets in PowerShell v3 CTP 2 Notes Richard Siddaway has invited...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2011 2:18 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, PowerShell User Group, PowerShell V3

Working with IPv6

A comment was left on one of the articles in my recent series on working with the hosts file asking about using IPv6. I’ve not used it really as I’ve never had any reason but it seems a good idea to dig into it a bit as IPv6 is enabled by default...

Published Sat, Nov 11 2011 6:54 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, Networking

Using enums

Following on my post about using enums http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/08/02/enums.aspx I thought it might be fun to see how we can make our own. If we look at Win32_LogicalDisk PS > Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk | ft DeviceID...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2011 10:01 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, .NET

Just a thought

I’ve working with WMI a lot recently and frequently seen things like this Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName dc02 Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName dc02 Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName dc02...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2011 3:54 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, Remoting

Scripting Guy Blog- PowerShell and WMI

The Scripting Guy is running a series of posts this week featuring articles taken from PowerShell books published by Manning ( www.manning.com ). Yesterday was Don Jones’ PowerShell Lunches, today is my PowerShell and WMI Read the articles and get the...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2011 12:10 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, Books

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UK PowerShell Group–December 2011

Working with IPv6

Using enums

Just a thought

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