March 11, 2012 11:22 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Network,
PowerShell 3,
Windows Server 8,
WMI
Windows Server 8 & Windows 8 bring a host of new functionality to us. I wanted to try out some of it so created a new VM and installed the OS – went for full GUI for now
Opened PowerShell and ran
Set-ExecutionPolicy remotesigned
Enable-PSRemoting...
March 10, 2012 6:09 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell 3,
WMIJust had the blinding glimpse of the obvious and if I use a default parameter set my problem is solved
function get-CIMRegKeyName{
March 10, 2012 6:03 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell 3,
WMIThe last part of the jigsaw is to wrap the CIM functionality in a function
function get-CIMRegKeyName{
[
March 10, 2012 5:44 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell 3,
WMIWe need to find the parameters associated with a WMI method – this information has to include the parameter and data type. WMI also gives a name to the output variable – this becomes a property on the return object.
function
March 10, 2012 5:18 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell 3,
WMII have created many WMI posts on this blog over the years. With PowerShell v3 a new API has been introduced and new cmdlets are available for working with WMI. The new functionality offers many improvements and advantages over using the WMI cmdlets so I thought that a series of articles showing...
March 6, 2012 12:45 PM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell 3,
User Group,
WMIHere are the details of the March meeting
When: Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012 7:30 PM (GMT)
Where: Virtual
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PowerShell v3 introduces a new way of working with WMI plus the option of creating your own cmdlets directly from WMI classes...
February 25, 2012 10:11 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell,
WMITripped over an interesting problem
I want to use the [wmiclass] accelerator because I need to find the key of a WMI class (code borrowed from PowerShell team blog – to be returned when I’ve finished with it)
$t = [WMIClass]$class
$t.properties |
...
February 21, 2012 2:24 PM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Operating System,
PowerShell,
WMII stumbled on this class
Get-WmiObject Win32_AutochkSetting
The useful output is
Caption :
Description :
SettingID : Microsoft...
February 12, 2012 4:31 AM
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Active Directory,
PowerShell,
WMIA bit more digging as a follow up to the previous post shows that the NTDS service is shown when PowerShell is run with elevated privileges i.e. Run as Administrator. That means we want to be able to test is PowerShell is running in that mode
The test-dcservicehealth function becomes
...
