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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Working with WMI can be difficult if I don’t know what I am looking for exactly. Most of the time I know the management entity I am interested in but not the WMI class that can provide this management information. It is easy to discover the classes in
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Starting point of a troubleshooting problem is usually an error code and the journey from the error code to the actual failing component might not always be an easy one. In this series, we’ll be taking a look at various WMI error codes and how to investigate
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Here are 2 scripting options that demonstrate how to create a Windows Event from a WMI Event when a new file is created. Use the following sites for reference: Details on the WMI Event Watcher Task: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141130.aspx
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