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 provider, instead of updating existing WMI API. ...

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 Center , after reading the known compatibility...

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 covering “Why Standards based management matters”...

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 out-of-band (from the network direct to hardware...

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]

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 is WMF install failure followed by the mysterious...

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 hard inventory data like total Physical Memory...

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/

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 powerful features of Windows Powershell. ...

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 = 'System' AND TargetInstance.EventCode = '1007...

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 laptop. Addtion based on reader feedback: ChassisTypes...

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 Information Model (CIM) industry standard to...

Starting with Windows Vista, under User Account Control (UAC) access-token filtering can affect which operations are allowed in WMI namespaces or what data is returned. Under UAC, all accounts in the local Administrators group run with a standard user access token , also known as UAC access-token filtering...

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 by such a provider, a return code WBEM_NOT_CAPABLE...

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 it is today. This class returns a complete list of...

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 in, you could use HostProcessIdentifier property...

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 is returned. If the same query is run locally on...

The “Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog ” is a great resource! The scripting guys blog about great tips, tricks, and solutions for Windows management. Here’s a list of recent WMI and PowerShell related topics: · Can I Query CPU Information with WMI and Windows PowerShell? · Where Can I Find a List of...

BITS Compact Server is a simple and secure HTTP / HTTPS server. BITS Compact Server exposes COM API for configuration. It can also be configured through a WMI provider. Features: 1. HTTP / HTTPS file server, for ad-hoc file hosting. It is not intended to be an internet facing server. 2. Independent...

MSDN link - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394053(VS.85).aspx New Security Feature in Windows 7 The following table lists the new Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) security feature that is available in Windows 7. Feature Description Controlling...

The below webcasts are a little old, but still useful - Windows PowerShell and Windows Management Instrumentation (Level 200) Troubleshooting Windows Management Instrumentation with the New Diagnosis Utility (Level 200) Troubleshooting the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) (Level 300...

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 a group of workstations and servers from a single...

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. WMI.Net Provider Extension 2.0 was first...

This post covers some FAQs on the WMI changes detailed here on 5/19 and is intended to address common questions that might arise about the two new running modes for the WMI provider host process. Question : How to identify if the WMI provider used by our product is launched in secure mode or not?...