There has been something bugging me lately about PowerShell. Actually, this something has probably always bugged me. But, when I saw this series: “Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts” on the ...

PowerShell 3.0 brings us into the world of CIM which I think you'll find to be a much easier approach for systems management using WMI. On the surface the syntax hasn't really changed much. We have a ...

In PowerShell 3.0, the new CIM cmdlets use the WSMAN protocol to retrieve WMI information. A byproduct is that the objects you retrieve across the wire do not have any WMI methods. Using WMI, we would ...

I think this is a borderline case of putting it in the Mojo forum, but I guess here's the people more familiar with WMI, Powershell and the like. My problem: I want to check on a computer whether it ...

You should also consider disabling tcp access to RPC, or at least setting it to require authentication. WMI is deprecated, and modern remote management tools (e.g. Powershell) use RPC instead. Unless ...