<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]

A common request that I get from customers is that they would like to use PowerShell to configure the BITS Upload Server extension on IIS. In the past, automating upload server configuration required the use of the Windows Scripting Host and the BITS...

As you may know, WinRM and WMI are implementations of public standards -- WMI is our implementation of CIM, and WinRM is our implementation of the WS-Management protocol. These are both published by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a consortium...

This will be the first in a series of posts about out-of-band management. First, "out-of-band" basically means outside of the Operating System. Specifically, a client is managing hardware irrespective of what OS is installed or if an OS is even installed...

This blog entry explains how to collect WinRM ETW and WPP traces: WinRM ETW Traces: You can use EventViewer to look at WinRM ETW events: · They are under Application and Services Logs à Microsoft à Windows à Windows Remote Management Operational...

502 usually results from an intermediate gateway/proxy unable to understand server’s response. If however, you don't expect a gateway or proxy to sit between your client and server, this error may result from a misconfigured proxy settings on your...

Powershell remoting is supported over load balancers with configuration described at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee309370(VS.85).aspx#load_balancing_in__the__iis_extension_hosting_model Users when trying to use this feature may hit a...

WinRM is hosted within IIS by enabling the WinRM native module at a particular IIS site, app or a vdir. IIS sites and apps can be configured to run in a specific application pool. Each application pool runs under a specific user context. WinRM will fail...

Since Windows Management Framework was released Oct. 2009, our customers have been excited about using PowerShell 2.0 on down-level OSes. Meanwhile, we also received feedback from both internal and external customers about our product issues. One of them...

We recently got a question on this blog about event forwarding. This post by Otto Helweg gives a great introduction to event forwarding mechanism in windows - http://blogs.technet.com/otto/archive/2008/07/08/quick-and-dirty-enterprise-eventing-for...

With Windows 7 wmi cmdlets now have support to perform tasks asynchronously. Asynchronous execution typically involves – · Run commands in background · Wait/stop on them · Retrieve results · Check status of execution Thus to collect...

Recently I came accross an interesting post which talks about how to use WMI with Windows Azure. http://blog.wadewegner.com/index.php/2009/11/04/leveraging-wmi-in-an-azure-web-role/

Compare WMIC.EXE with Windows Powershell Cmdlets for WMI The WMI command-line (WMIC) utility provides a command-line interface for WMI. With Windows 7 you can do everything that you can do with wmic using Windows Powershell and much more by leveraging...

What happens when we don't specify a "within" interval in a WQL notification query with an intrinsic event class name? For example: SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent WHERE TargetInstance ISA 'Win32_NTLogEvent' AND TargetInstance.LogFile...

Say you want to provision some settings only on all laptops in your corporate domain. The problemthough is, how do you identify which computers ones are laptops? WMI Class win32_systemEnclosure has a property - ChassisTypes. ChassisTypes is 9 in a...

The CIM is an information model, a conceptual view of the managed environment, that attempts to unify and extend the existing instrumentation and management standards (SNMP, DMI, CMIP, etc.) using object-oriented constructs and design. WMI uses the Common...