{"id":6661,"date":"2015-04-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/14\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-cmdlets-that-use-cim\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:53","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-cmdlets-that-use-cim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-cmdlets-that-use-cim\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Cmdlets that Use CIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to find cmdlets that use CIM.<\/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;I want to see what Windows PowerShell cmdlets will use a CIM session, but when I use&nbsp;<b>Get-Command<\/b>, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;only a couple things return. How can I fix this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-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\" \/>&nbsp;Windows PowerShell automatically loads modules, but when looking for parameters, it does not load modules. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Therefore, if you want to see all the commands that use a CIM session, first load the modules, then search for&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;commands that accept the&nbsp;<b>CIMSession<\/b>&nbsp;parameter, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Module -ListAvailable | Import-Module<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Command -ParameterName cimsession<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find cmdlets that use CIM. &nbsp;I want to see what Windows PowerShell cmdlets will use a CIM session, but when I use&nbsp;Get-Command, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;only a couple things return. How can I fix this? &nbsp;Windows PowerShell automatically loads modules, but when looking for parameters, it does not [&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":[385,51,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-cim","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find cmdlets that use CIM. &nbsp;I want to see what Windows PowerShell cmdlets will use a CIM session, but when I use&nbsp;Get-Command, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;only a couple things return. How can I fix this? &nbsp;Windows PowerShell automatically loads modules, but when looking for parameters, it does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661","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=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/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=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}