{"id":4983,"date":"2012-09-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/09\/12\/powertip-easily-find-wmi-class-schema-information-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-easily-find-wmi-class-schema-information-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-easily-find-wmi-class-schema-information-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Easily Find WMI Class Schema Information with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use a one-line command to obtain WMI class schema (MOF) information.<\/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 can I use Windows PowerShell to display the MOF of a WMI class?<\/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;Use the&nbsp;<b>WMIClass<\/b>&nbsp;type accelerator, and then call the static&nbsp;<b>GetText<\/b>&nbsp;method whilst supplying the word&nbsp;<i>MOF:<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ([wmiclass]&#8221;Win32_Pingstatus&#8221;).gettext(&#8220;MOF&#8221;)<\/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 one-line command to obtain WMI class schema (MOF) information. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the MOF of a WMI class? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;WMIClass&nbsp;type accelerator, and then call the static&nbsp;GetText&nbsp;method whilst supplying the word&nbsp;MOF: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ([wmiclass]&#8221;Win32_Pingstatus&#8221;).gettext(&#8220;MOF&#8221;)<\/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-4983","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 a one-line command to obtain WMI class schema (MOF) information. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the MOF of a WMI class? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;WMIClass&nbsp;type accelerator, and then call the static&nbsp;GetText&nbsp;method whilst supplying the word&nbsp;MOF: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ([wmiclass]&#8221;Win32_Pingstatus&#8221;).gettext(&#8220;MOF&#8221;)<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","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=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/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=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}