{"id":4527,"date":"2012-12-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/01\/powertip-find-updatable-wmi-classes\/"},"modified":"2012-12-01T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-updatable-wmi-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-updatable-wmi-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Updatable WMI Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily find WMI classes you can update.<\/p>\n<p><strong><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;<\/strong>How can I find WMI classes that support updating?<\/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&nbsp;<strong>Get-Cimclass<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and a wild card for the WMI class name. Then, look for the class qualifier of&nbsp;<strong>supportsupdate<\/strong>, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-CimClass -ClassName * -QualifierName supportsupdate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<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;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily find WMI classes you can update. &nbsp;How can I find WMI classes that support updating? Use the&nbsp;Get-Cimclass&nbsp;cmdlet and a wild card for the WMI class name. Then, look for the class qualifier of&nbsp;supportsupdate, as shown here. Get-CimClass -ClassName * -QualifierName supportsupdate &nbsp;<\/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":[362,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powershell-3","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily find WMI classes you can update. &nbsp;How can I find WMI classes that support updating? Use the&nbsp;Get-Cimclass&nbsp;cmdlet and a wild card for the WMI class name. Then, look for the class qualifier of&nbsp;supportsupdate, as shown here. Get-CimClass -ClassName * -QualifierName supportsupdate &nbsp;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","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=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/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=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}