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WMI Diag won't work well in non-English Windows
Hi all, If you ever use WMI Diag script ( The WMI Diagnosis Utility -- Version 2.0 ) on a non-English version of Windows (i.e. Spanish , French, Italian, German...), you will get tons of errors when the script checks out default permissions on WMI namespaces Read More...
How to get Antivirus information with WMI (VBScript)
Hi all, welcome back, As we read in Windows Security Center – Managing the State of Security , the vast majority of antivirus Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) support WMI integration. Windows Security Center uses it to detect antivirus and firewall Read More...
Win32_Process.Create fails if user profile is not loaded
Hi all, welcome back, The other day I worked on an issue which happened when using WMI method Win32_Process.Create to spawn a process from an ASP.NET application. This method was returning an ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY (8) and the new process wasn't created. Read More...
How to change the Security Descriptor of WMI objects
Hi all, welcome back, You may want to give users or groups access to perform read/modify WMI operations on WMI objects , and for that you need to change the Security Descriptor ( SD ) for WMI objects. There are several ways to achieve this: 1) Manually Read More...
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