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WMI and Network Adapters: 4

We have looked at using Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration. 

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter -Filter "NetEnabled='$true'" |
Format-List NetConnectionID, Description, MACAddress, Speed

Get-WmiObject -Class...

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WMI and Network Adapters: 3

We have seen how to query WMI for information on network adapters.  But what we didn’t get was information about the addresses allocated to the NICs.  We need a different class for that

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration

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WQL wildcards

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter 

will show us a list of network adapters.  We can narrow this down to a specific adapter

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter -Filter "DeviceId='11'" | fl *

What if we know that there is a...

WMI and Network Adapters: 2

Ok – just to help out we can do this to see the useful information we need to complete our IPconfig listing

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter -Filter "NetEnabled='$true'" | Format-List NetConnectionID, Description, MACAddress, Speed

This gets a display like...

WMI and Network Adapters: 1

Network adapters are a fundamental part of our system – without them our networks grind to a halt because the machines can’t communicate. We have a good tool in ipconfig for looking at NIC information but we can extend this using PowerShell and WMI. Let’s start by seeing what is...

WMI date issue

Working with WMI dates can be awkward sometimes. For instance if we look at the last boot up time of our system

$machine = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem

PS> $machine.LastBootUpTime
20100823183135.359600+060

We get a non-intuitive...

WMI and office 2

it seems that the WMI provider I mentioned last time is effectively discontinued in Office 2010.

I’ll see if I can get a machine set up with Office 2007 to investigate further

WMI at the Office

If you have Office 2010 installed you should find an msapps12 namespace on your machine.

The classes exposed by this namespace can be found with

Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\msapps12 –List

There are a lot of them! The classes seem to be broken down by Office...