{"id":3639,"date":"2013-05-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/12\/powertip-use-powershell-to-list-top-level-wmi-namespaces\/"},"modified":"2013-05-12T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-list-top-level-wmi-namespaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-list-top-level-wmi-namespaces\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to List Top-Level WMI Namespaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px\"><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to list top-level WMI namespaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to list the top-level WMI namespaces?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>Use the <strong>Get-WmiObject<\/strong> cmdlet or the <strong>Get-CImInstance<\/strong> cmdlet and query for <strong>__NameSpace<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Windows PowerShell&nbsp;2.0 syntax:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-WmiObject __NameSpace | select name<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Windows PowerShell 3.0 syntax:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-CimInstance __NameSpace | select name<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to list top-level WMI namespaces. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to list the top-level WMI namespaces? Use the Get-WmiObject cmdlet or the Get-CImInstance cmdlet and query for __NameSpace: Windows PowerShell&nbsp;2.0 syntax: Get-WmiObject __NameSpace | select name &nbsp; Windows PowerShell 3.0 syntax: Get-CimInstance __NameSpace | select name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to list top-level WMI namespaces. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to list the top-level WMI namespaces? Use the Get-WmiObject cmdlet or the Get-CImInstance cmdlet and query for __NameSpace: Windows PowerShell&nbsp;2.0 syntax: Get-WmiObject __NameSpace | select name &nbsp; Windows PowerShell 3.0 syntax: Get-CimInstance __NameSpace | select name<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}