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Get CIMInstance from PowerShell 2.0

I love the new CIM cmdlets in PowerShell 3.0. Querying WMI is a little faster because the CIM cmdlets query WMI using the WSMAN protocol instead of DCOM. The catch is that remote computers must be running PowerShell 3 which includes the latest version...

Posted to The Lonely Administrator by The Lonely Administrator on 04-10-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Function, Powershell 3.0, CIM, wsman, CIMInstance

Find Files with WMI and PowerShell Revisited

Last week I posted a PowerShell function to find files using WMI. One of the comments I got was about finding files with wildcards. In WMI, we’ve been able to search via wildcards and the LIKE operator since the days of XP. In a WMI query we use...

Posted to The Lonely Administrator by The Lonely Administrator on 02-04-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Function

Find Files with WMI and PowerShell

Finding files is one of those necessary evils for IT Pros. Sometimes we’re searching for a needle in a haystack. And it gets even more complicated when the haystacks are on 10 or 100 or 1000 remote computers. You might think using Get-ChildItem...

Posted to The Lonely Administrator by The Lonely Administrator on 01-29-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Function, Get-WMIObject, security, CIM_DATAFILE

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 → Read...

Posted to The Lonely Administrator by The Lonely Administrator on 07-12-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Get-WMIObject