http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/08/01/get-wmichildnamespace.aspxI got sick of fiddling around with WMI namespace so I produced a really simple script to cope with this. I call it Get-WmiNamespace:   PS&gt; cat .\Get-WMIChildNameSpace.ps1 param ($Namespace="root\cimv2", $Computer=".", $Column=4) Get-WmiObject en-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/08/01/get-wmichildnamespace.aspx#4207585Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:11:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4207585Oisin Grehan<p>hmmm... WMI -- I smell another provider coming on... ;-)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4207585" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/08/01/get-wmichildnamespace.aspx#4188548Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:15:51 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4188548Lionel Fourquaux<p>I tried to find what I remembered, and it looks like I confused an hypothetic WMI provider with the GAC namespace provider in PowerShellCX, since both ideas were discussed in the newsgroups at about the same time. &nbsp;Sorry for the mistake.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4188548" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/08/01/get-wmichildnamespace.aspx#4187830Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:18:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4187830PowerShell Team<p>If you know of a WMI namespace provider - please share it. &nbsp;This would definately be the way to go.</p> <p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]</p> <p>Windows Management Partner Architect</p> <p>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: &nbsp; &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell">http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell</a></p> <p>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4187830" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/08/01/get-wmichildnamespace.aspx#4185502Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:56:37 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4185502Lionel Fourquaux<p>Would it not make more sense to handle this using Get-ChildItem (something like gci | ? { $_.PSIsContainer })? &nbsp;I believe there is a community extension that make WMI appear as a PowerShell provider.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4185502" width="1" height="1">