Windows Management Infrastructure Blog

In Windows 8/Windows server 2012 we introduced new Management Infrastructure (MI) API for writing WMI provider and client applications. This blog post will explain our goals for "Improving developer Experience" and WHY we did a new API for client and...

In blog Implementing MI Provider (2) , we discussed schema definition of MI provider. Upon the schema ready, you can run Convert-MofToProvider.exe tool to generate MI provider skeleton code. Where to install Convert-MofToProvider.exe tool? Install...

Define Schema To implement a MI provider, the first step is to model the management data, i.e., to define the schema of data. The schema has to be defined in DMTF's Managed Object Format (MOF), which is very similar to WMI MOF format except partial...

Blog Standards-based Management in Windows Server “8” gives overview of standard-based management and architecture of the new management stack introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. “Implementing MI Provider” series blogs...

Introduction The DMTF standard uses profiles to perform namespace discovery. As an implementer of a profile, you need to register a profile object that points to the namespace of the implementing class. The profile object must be implemented under...

We have an important update regarding WMF 3.0 ("Windows Management Framework") compatibility. Those who want to install WMF 3.0 to take advantage of all the great features this update provides can do so by installing the update from the Microsoft Download...

WMI team created a useful cheat sheet summarizing what's new in WMI. This is a great reference doc for developers. We are making them available through this blog post - as is. The real documentation is still on MSDN (and it is being regularly updated...

Management ODATA uses the Open Data Protocol (ODATA) to expose and consume data over the Web or Intranet. It is primarily designed to expose resources manipulated by PowerShell cmdlets and scripts as schematized ODATA entities using the semantics of representational...

We recently posted a blog post related to our new CIM Cmdlets. The post is available on the powershell blog at the following link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/08/24/introduction-to-cim-cmdlets.aspx We would love to know what...

In my last post, I discussed the concept of DMTF Management Profiles and in this blog post I’m going to discuss applying them. Standards (particularly adopted ones) enable not only interoperability, but also reuse of tools. WS-Man enables a common...

The investments we’ve made in Windows Server 2012 (and WMF3.0) for standards based management is built around WS-Man as the remoting protocol (HTTP is the transport) and CIM as the model. By themselves, WS-Man and CIM are useful, but may not provide...

We are pleased to announce availability of a highly portable, small footprint, high performance CIM Object Manager called OMI (Open Management Infrastructure). See the annoucement on Windows Server blog Copying from the blog “ The public...

We are excited to introduce the investments we have made in Windows Server “8” through this excellent blog post Standards based management in Windows Server 8 by Jeffrey Snover and Wojtek Kozaczynski. It’s a very detailed overview...

IPMI ( Intelligent Platform Management Interface ) is a specification defined by Intel and adopted by a number of companies for standardizing hardware management, particularly in server systems. IPMI supports both in-band (from the operating system) and...

Beta release of Windows Server “8 " is now available for download..<drum beats and celebrations> We are excited as WMI , WinRM and SMIS are at the heart of management capabilities highlighted by Bill Laing in his blog. We provide the 'Management...

<Copied from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/12/02/windows-management-framework-3-0-community-technology-preview-ctp-2-available-for-download.aspx> I’m pleased to announce that the Community Technology Preview #2 (CTP2)...

Copying blog post from PowerShell blog Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP1 makes some updated management functionality available to be installed on Windows 7 SP1 & Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Windows Management Framework 3.0 contains Windows...

Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) has introduced a more granular control over the BITS bandwidth usage for background jobs, with a new set of group policies. Bandwidth limits can now be applied to the three BITS job priorities individually...

First, let me apologize for the lack of posts to this blog. Out original team goal was to have a new post every month, but holidays/vacations/work got in the way. I’ll try to restart this rhythm. For this first post of the New Year, I’m going...

Here's an oldie but a goodie. Heath Stewart provides example scripts on how to enable and disable ETW logging for the BITS service. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2008/07/07/bits-logging.aspx

Today, we released Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for pre-Windows 7 operating systems on Windows Update. This non-security, optional update is designed for Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3....

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) leverages BITS and BranchCache to download patches from a local distribution point and conserve WAN usage. Check out this blog post that provides an overview of how SCCM leverages this feature and how to enable...

Here is an article that shows how to use Powershell to easily configure WSMan Limits. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2010/05/03/configuring-wsman-limits.aspx Hope this helps. Aditya Patwardhan [MSFT]

This blog entry describes the reasons behind getting "Access Denied" on certain commands run on remote PS runspaces and ways to work around them. The category of commands include ones that authenticate to other services, try to access network resources...

I found a blog which has a few helpful VBScripts to perform some common tasks. http://blogs.msdn.com/alejacma/archive/tags/WMI/default.aspx Hope this helps. Aditya Patwardhan [MSFT]