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September 2009 - Posts

Writing WMI providers FAQ series - 2 - When a provider doesn’t support enumeration what will be the impact for the WMI consumer?
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 Read More...
Posted: Monday, September 28, 2009 7:40 PM by kmathur | 2 Comments
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Writing WMI providers FAQ series - 1 - If a provider doesn’t support query capabilities, how is the query handled by WMI?
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 Read More...
Posted: Saturday, September 26, 2009 1:23 AM by kmathur | 2 Comments
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Troubleshooting WMI providers using MSFT_Providers class
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, Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:14 AM by kmathur | 0 Comments
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WMI: Remote query for Win32_Product class results in ‘Generic Failure’ error (0x80041001)
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 Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:36 PM by wmfblog | 0 Comments
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Windows Management Framework RC available on XP and Server 2003
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 Read More...
Posted: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:43 PM by nathanburkhart | 2 Comments
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Help Us Improve Microsoft Windows Management Framework
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 from our Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:26 PM by wmfblog | 0 Comments
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