One of the powerful capabilities in WMI is allowing authenticated users and applications to perform management tasks on a remote computer through DCOM. This is particularly useful in the fan-out scenario where developers can write applications to monitor...

Writing WMI provider in native code has steep learning curve. It involves writing MOF files and implementing methods from IWbemServices and IWbemProviderInit interfaces. Sometimes it becomes difficult and time consuming to debug issues in the WMI provider...

If you have been using BITS PowerShell cmdlets since the Windows 7 beta and are currently running the Windows 7 RC, then you will likely have had some trouble finding the BITS cmdlets in the RC. Fear not, the BITS PowerShell cmdlets are now known as...

Hello, my name is Venkatesh Ganga. I’m an Escalation Engineer on the Microsoft Platform Global Escalation Services team. In this blog I would like to talk about an interesting WMI issue I worked few months ago. The idea behind this blog is to discuss...

The end user can operate a WSMan client from behind a web proxy for remote management, that is, the client machine connects to the internet through a web proxy server. All HTTP traffic between the client machine and the internet must pass through the...