{"id":4796,"date":"2012-10-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/20\/powertip-find-wmi-classes-that-permit-you-to-create-things\/"},"modified":"2012-10-20T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-wmi-classes-that-permit-you-to-create-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-wmi-classes-that-permit-you-to-create-things\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find WMI Classes That Permit You to Create Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use a Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 cmdlet to find WMI classes that permit you to create things.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>How can you easily find WMI classes that permit you to create stuff?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Cimclass<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a method name of&nbsp;<b>create<\/b><i>:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Get-CimClass -MethodName create<\/p>\n<\/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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use a Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 cmdlet to find WMI classes that permit you to create things. &nbsp;How can you easily find WMI classes that permit you to create stuff? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Cimclass&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a method name of&nbsp;create: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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":[362,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4796","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: Use a Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 cmdlet to find WMI classes that permit you to create things. &nbsp;How can you easily find WMI classes that permit you to create stuff? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Cimclass&nbsp;cmdlet and specify a method name of&nbsp;create: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","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=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/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=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}