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Summary: Learn how to find the key property of a WMI class by using a Windows PowerShell function.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Well, I received a decent amount of feedback about version 1 of my HSGWMIhelper Windows PowerShell module. Today, I want to add a needed feature to the module: I need the ability to find a WMI key propert...

Summary: In this article, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson begins part 1 of a multipart WMI helper function module for Windows PowerShell.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. While I was teaching my Windows PowerShell Best Practices class in Montreal, we spent an entire day talking about Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). While W...

Summary: Use a Windows PowerShell function to find WMI classes with specific qualifiers.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. In Thursday’s article, I talked about using the Set-WmiInstance cmdlet to work with WMI classes. One of the parameters, the class parameter, works with WMI singleton objects. Now, it is certainly possible to ...

Summary: Learn how to use the Set-WmiInstance Windows PowerShell cmdlet to ease configuration of computers.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I was using the Get-Command cmdlet to look at what things I can do with Windows PowerShell, and I noticed a cmdlet called Set-WmiInstance. I looked at the help, but I don’t get it. What is the big deal? &mdas...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to slice and dice WMI data in an easy, SQL-like fashion.   Hey, Scripting Guy! Does the WMI select statement have any other clauses like SQL does? For example, can I just select top 10 * from to get a sample of the collection rather than doing a * for the entire collection? —UJ   Hello UJ...