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Recently one of MVPs, Darren Mar-Elia (Group Policy Guru from SDMSoftware [which as a set of FREE PowerShell GP cmdlets HERE])  was working with our WMI type accelerators and got the following error: $ld = '\\sdmlaptop1\root\cimv2:Win32_LogicalDisk.Caption="C:"' $disk = [WMI] $ld Cannot convert value "\\sdmlaptop1\root\cimv2:Win32_LogicalDisk....

Both PowerShell and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) are pretty incredible technologies that can do a lot of amazing things, but we're all human, and keeping an encyclopedic mental reference of all of these amazing things would give Good Will Hunting a headache.  For years, when I used WMI I almost al...

Over on MyItForum.com, I came upon a VBScript in a forum to find all the PNP entities associated with a USBController. I rewrote it in PowerShell and was pretty happy with the results so I thought I would share them. The first thing you need to understand is that the WMI class WIN32_USBControllerDevice describes the connection between USB control...

MOW has done it again.  Checkout his blog entry which shows how to leverage Windows PowerShell to automate determining which of the Dell laptops in your enterprise need to have their batteries replaced. http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/08/powershell-has-my-dell-dangerous.html Totally cool.  Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/Asp...

One of the primary goals of Windows PowerShell is to encode operations knowledge.   Consider the example of finding out what domain role a computer plays.  If you look at the WMI class WIN32_COMPUTERSYSTEM, you'll see that it tells you this information:   PS> Get-WMiObject Win32_computerSystem |fl dom*Domain  &...

In the blog entry Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/06/29/650913.aspx . I showed how you could use the registry to get all the progids that you can use for COM automation. Here is a way to do the same thing via WMI (which allows you to do it to remote machines): Get-WMIObject Win32_ProgIDSpeci...

MMS in San Diego was a great conference!  I met lots of customers that asked lots of great questions.  I was demonstrating PowerShell's WMI support when a customer asked about controlling the output.  The problem was that PowerShell was showing all the WMI System properties as well as the Object properties and that this wasn't what t...