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Windows Management Infrastructure Blog

Managing your IT infrastructure remotely, securely, reliably and efficiently

May 2009 - Posts

Is WMIprvse a real villain?
How often has it occurred that you were working on something and suddenly your computer became slow? You opened task manager to find out the culprit that is hogging your systems CPU cycles. You sorted the processes according to CPU usage and saw WMIprvse.exe Read More...
FAQ for security enhancements posted on 05/19
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 Read More...
WMI Feature Announcement
Changes were made to Windows platforms to help provide more security for the WMI provider host process (wmiprvse.exe). These changes introduce three new group policies and two running modes for the WMI shared host, which are called secure and compatible. Read More...
Association Traversal Using WSMan cmdlets
First let us review the concept of “CIM/WMI association”, then we’ll show examples on how to perform association traversal using WSMan-related cmdlets. Please note this is a generic discussion about association traversal but targeting Win7 implementation. Read More...
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