{"id":4462,"date":"2012-12-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/16\/powertip-use-the-get-cimclass-cmdlet-to-find-wmi-properties\/"},"modified":"2012-12-16T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-the-get-cimclass-cmdlet-to-find-wmi-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-the-get-cimclass-cmdlet-to-find-wmi-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use the Get-Cimclass Cmdlet to Find WMI Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to find specific WMI properties.<\/p>\n<p><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 do I find what WMI class contains the Service Pack property?<\/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\" \/>&nbsp;Charlotte PowerShell User Group member Brian Wilhite says: The easiest way to find the WMI class or classes that contain the &ldquo;Service Pack&rdquo; property, you&rsquo;ll use the<strong>Get-CimClass<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;<strong>-PropertyName<\/strong>&nbsp;parameter and specify a wild card search.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Get-CimClass -PropertyName *servicepack*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to find specific WMI properties. &nbsp;How do I find what WMI class contains the Service Pack property? &nbsp;Charlotte PowerShell User Group member Brian Wilhite says: The easiest way to find the WMI class or classes that contain the &ldquo;Service Pack&rdquo; property, you&rsquo;ll use theGet-CimClass&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;-PropertyName&nbsp;parameter and specify a wild card [&hellip;]<\/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":[327,56,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-brian-wilhite","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to find specific WMI properties. &nbsp;How do I find what WMI class contains the Service Pack property? &nbsp;Charlotte PowerShell User Group member Brian Wilhite says: The easiest way to find the WMI class or classes that contain the &ldquo;Service Pack&rdquo; property, you&rsquo;ll use theGet-CimClass&nbsp;cmdlet with the&nbsp;-PropertyName&nbsp;parameter and specify a wild card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","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=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/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=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}