Windows Management Infrastructure Blog

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...

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/