WMI and performance counters II

In this post https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/powershell/wmi-and-performance-counters-i/ we...
WMI metadata

We normally use WMI to either return information about our systems Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Process | sort KernelModeTime -desc | Format-Table Name, KernelModeTime –AutoSize or to perform some action Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Process -Filter "Name='notepad.exe'" |...
DevConnections–Connections powered by Microsoft

The conference is in London 14-15 June and includes a number of PowerShell related sessions. There is also a pre-conference PowerShell workshop on 13 June delivered by Don Jones. Details can be found here
UK PowerShell Group–March 2011

March 22 we have Tome Tanasovski presenting on Regular Expressions. Tome is a Windows engineer for a market-leading global financial services firm in New York City. He is a recipient of the PowerShell MVP award, the founder and leader of the New York City PowerShell User group, a blogger, and a...
PowerCLI book

Last May I posted a review of fellow PowerShell MVP Hal Rottenberg’s book on managing VMware through PowerShell -
PowerShell Deep Dive

If you haven’t seen it already check out the PowerShell Deep Dive at this years “The Experts Conference”.
PowerShell and WMI–Chapter 5 MEAP

Chapter 5 has been released for PowerShell and WMI. It is available through the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) at http://www.manning.com/siddaway2/
The available chapters cover:
- Solving Administrative...
WMI and Performance Counters: I

We are always worried about the performance of our systems for one reason or another. We usually turn to sysmon/perfmon to find out how the system is doing.
We can actually use WMI to retrieve this data!
CPU performance is always an issue. We can see what is available
...Windows 7 SP1

Installed the RTM version of SP1 today – its one download to cover Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Install is straight forward. No real issues seen. I’ll report any problems that come up
IT lemmings

IT seems to be in a continuous cycle of hype. We keep getting “new” technologies or ways of supplying IT that will solve all of your organisations problems at a stroke. Some examples of this phenomenon include:
- outsourcing – IT isn’t a core activity for you business so hand...