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 Hey, Scripting Guy! Using the Get-Member cmdlet with Windows PowerShell is pretty cool, but the one thing I do not like is the way that Windows PowerShell hides stuff from me. When I look in MSDN for information about a WMI class, I see all of these methods listed. When I use the Get-Member  cmdlet, some of the methods are not listed. So...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have seen a number of methods listed for WMI classes on MSDN, but when I try to use them in Windows PowerShell, they do not work. I am wondering what the secret is to making these things actually do something. I assume they are not really broken because I have VBScripts that I downloaded from the Script Center Script...

 Hey Scripting Guy! I have been playing with WMI on Windows PowerShell, and I think the Get-WmiObject cmdlet is pretty cool. It makes it easy to query for information from computers on my network. But what if I want to actually do something? How do I do that? -- SHHello SH, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I completely understand your d...

Hey,  Scripting Guy! I have been trying to get on the Windows PowerShell bandwagon as I feel it is essential to my career as a network administrator who works in the Windows world. At first, it seemed to be confusing, but now I am starting to get it. I am still stuck when it comes to working with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). M...

Troubleshooting the Application of Two WMI Classes   Hey, Scripting Guy! The examples produced from the "Scriptomatic Version 2.0 by The Microsoft Scripting Guys" for the entries Win32_ServiceSpecification and Win32_ServiceControl both return error 0x80041002 under Windows Server 2003. I can't find another WMI class that exposes the recovery ...