I got sick of fiddling around with WMI namespace so I produced a really simple script to cope with this. I call it Get-WmiNamespace:

PS> cat .\Get-WMIChildNameSpace.ps1
param ($Namespace=”root\cimv2″, $Computer=”.”, $Column=4)

Get-WmiObject -Computer:$Computer -NameSpace:$NameSpace __NameSpace |Format-Wid
e -Column:$Column
PS>
PS> .\Get-WmiChildNamespace.ps1

Security SMS ms_409 TerminalServices
Applications

PS> .\Get-WmiChildNamespace.ps1 -namespace root -column 5

subscription DEFAULT MicrosoftDfs CIMV2 Cli
nap MicrosoftIISv2 SECURITY RSOP WebAdministr…
WMI directory Policy ServiceModel SecurityCenter
MSAPPS12 Microsoft aspnet vm

PS> .\Get-WmiChildNamespace.ps1 -namespace root\vm -column 5

Virtualserver

Enjoy!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows Management Partner Architect
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