PowerShell v2

PowerShell and WMI – new MEAP release

Four new chapters have been added to the MEAP  (early access) for PowerShell and WMI

Chapter 14 - Users and security

Chapter 15 - Logs, jobs, and performance

Chapter 16  - Hyper-V

Chapter 17 - Windows Remote Management

Chapter...

Reading the hosts file

Normally I ignore the Hosts file but my development laptop isn’t a member of my test domain – a number of reasons for this which I won’t go into.

This means that when I want to RDP to a machine in the test domain I have to use the IP address. A bit awkward but not too bad until I...

Discovering NIC that has a specific IP Address

One question (of many) that came up at that European Deep Dive (more on that later) was finding the particular network adapter associated with an IP Address.  The problem is that IP Address (in the later versions of Windows) is a string array in WMI

Get-WmiObject -Class...

Win32_OSRecoveryConfiguration class

The Win32_OSRecoveryConfiguration class represents the types of information that will be gathered from memory when the operating system fails. This includes boot failures and system crashes.

One very important parameter is DebugInfoType  which sets the type of debugging information...

WMI provider and MOF file

WMI is installed as a series of providers. The information on creating the classes comes from MOF files. I was recently asked about a problem with a specific class & could it be restored – in this case it was easier to rebuild WMI as the provider created a large part of the root\cimv2...

Proxy function for Get-WmiObject

There are many people who don’t like to see the WMI system properties

PS> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem | select __*

__GENUS          : 2