{"id":5113,"date":"2012-08-17T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/08\/17\/powertip-working-with-alternate-credentials-with-wmi\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-working-with-alternate-credentials-with-wmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-working-with-alternate-credentials-with-wmi\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Working with Alternate Credentials with WMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn four &nbsp;ways to supply alternate credentials with WMI and Windows PowerShell.<\/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 supply alternate credentials for a remote WMI call when I am using the&nbsp;<b>Get-WmiObject<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">a. Use the credential parameter as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -ComputerName Server01 -Credential (get-credential ` Domain01@User01)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">b. Use the credential parameter as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">$c = Get-Credential<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Get-WmiObject Win32_DiskDrive -ComputerName Server01 -Credential $c<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">c. Create a CIM session to the remote system by using the&nbsp;<b>New-CimSession<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">d. Create a PS session to the remote system by using&nbsp;<b>New-PSSession<\/b>.<\/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: Learn four &nbsp;ways to supply alternate credentials with WMI and Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I supply alternate credentials for a remote WMI call when I am using the&nbsp;Get-WmiObject&nbsp;cmdlet? a. Use the credential parameter as shown here. Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -ComputerName Server01 -Credential (get-credential ` Domain01@User01) b. Use the credential parameter as shown here. $c = [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-5113","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: Learn four &nbsp;ways to supply alternate credentials with WMI and Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I supply alternate credentials for a remote WMI call when I am using the&nbsp;Get-WmiObject&nbsp;cmdlet? a. Use the credential parameter as shown here. Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -ComputerName Server01 -Credential (get-credential ` Domain01@User01) b. Use the credential parameter as shown here. $c = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","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=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/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=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}