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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to easily find the schema of a WMI class by using Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Well it is exactly two months until the Windows PowerShell Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. You should definitely make plans to attend. Our available spe...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows you how to use Windows PowerShell to clean up your WMI data output. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. So far the Scripting Wife has been scarce. She got up before sunrise (I believe) and headed out to points unknown. Actually, I believe she had scheduled a “chicks breakfast” ...

Summary: Learn how to simplify your WQL queries by using the like operator and special wildcard characters. Hey, Scripting Guy! OK, I can see that using WMI queries might be cool. But I do not like having to always specify exact properties and values. Is it possible to use wildcard characters for some of this stuff?” —SC Hello SC, Mic...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows you how to avoid three potential issues when using WQL data queries with Windows PowerShell.  Hey, Scripting Guy! Yesterday you said there were three basic WQL keywords: Select, From, and Where. You talked about Select and From. I guess you are going to talk about Where today? Am I right? &mda...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using WMI Query Language and Windows PowerShell to get WMI data. Hey, Scripting Guy! What is WQL? It sounds like SQL, but that does not always mean very much. I mean, General Electric and General Motors sound alike, but they do not have much in common. So back to my question, do you know wha...