The aim of the series is to cover a WMI Provider writing question per post. If you have a question, you'd like the WMI team to answer, do leave a comment. Now, for the answer - If the WMI client requests to enumerate all instances of a class supported...

The aim of the series is to cover a WMI Provider writing question per post. If you have a question, you'd like the WMI team to answer, do leave a comment. Now, for the answer - Let's take the Win32_Product class supported by the MSI provider as...

MSFT_Providers is a troubleshooting class which contains configuration information for providers. This class can be pretty handy while troubleshooting provider issues. For eg. Suppose you want to know which wmiprvse process is your provider loaded...

Here’s an issue that some of our WMI enthusiasts have been seeing in the field. When remotely querying the Win32_Product class to determine what software is installed on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system, a “Generic Failure” (0x80041001) error...

Following on the heels of the public release of the Microsoft Windows Management Framework RC for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 last month, we are pleased to announce the public availability of WinRM 2.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 on Windows XP...

After WMF (Windows Management Framework ), i.e., the combined download package of Powershell, WsMan and BITS, for Vista and Windows Server 2008 was released to the Web on Aug. 13th , we can feel the high expectation for the final WMF releases...