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Hey, Scripting Guy! Good morning. I would like to use WMI to get diagnostic information for my server. I would like to be able to do this remotely and to write the results to an Excel spreadsheet. When I am done, I would like the spreadsheet to also create a chart of the results. Is this asking too much? I have seen pieces of all this on the Scri...

Hey Scripting Guy! I would like to be able to use Windows PowerShell to obtain some information from WMI and then write that same information to a Microsoft Word document. I know that I can use Out-File to create a text file, but text files are boring. I want to get the information into Word where I can later add colors, borders, and pictures if ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! When I use WMI to query for network cards on my laptop, it comes back with 32 network cards. 32! I am not lying. My laptop does not even have 32 slots, so how does it have 32 network cards in it? How can I find information about the "real" network cards on my laptop? I figure I should only have two: the wired NIC and the wi...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to run the same WMI queries against multiple computers on our network. Can I do this with Windows PowerShell?- KB Hi KB, Not only can you do this with Windows PowerShell, but you will be surprised at how easy it is to do. If you can create a text file in Notepad, you can run your multiple queries against multiple ser...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve looked through the entire Script Center but I can’t find an example of what I need to do: find all the .DOC files on drives C and D, but using a single WMI query. In other words, I want to write a WMI query similar to this: Where ( Drive = 'C:' or 'D:' ) and ( Extension = 'doc' ); unfortunately, though, I can’t figure out...