Get-WmiObject property parameter

This is a fairly obvious piece of PowerShell

Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume

We would probably restrict the properties we displayed like this

Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume | select DriveLetter, DriveType, Freespace

or possibly

Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume |
format-table DriveLetter, DriveType, Freespace –AutoSize

If we are dealing with a large number of remote machines we may want to restrict the properties we return – this is where we use the –property parameter

Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume -property @("DriveLetter", "DriveType", "Freespace")

NOTE THIS STILL RETURNS THE SYSTEM PROPERTIES

so to get a good display we would want to still use format-table (or select)

Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume -property @("DriveLetter", "DriveType", "Freespace") |
format-table DriveLetter, DriveType, Freespace –AutoSize

The –property parameter gives us another opportunity to restrict the data returned to reduce network traffic but we still need to format the returned data