Windows Management Infrastructure Blog
Managing your IT infrastructure remotely, securely, reliably and efficiently
As most people are aware, PowerShell provides two ways of managing the Windows Remote Management...
Date: 04/01/2015
The DMTF recently published the Web Services for Management (WS-Man) standard version 1.2. This...
Date: 10/22/2014
Performance of CIM_DataFile and Win32_Directory enumeration depends on the number of files or...
Date: 04/10/2014
As a part of the ongoing blog series Performing Management tasks using CIM Cmdlets we are...
Date: 03/28/2014
As a part of the ongoing blog series “Performing Management tasks using Cimcmdlets” we...
Date: 01/16/2014
As part of this blog series we are sharing PowerShell snippets for a few Computer Management tasks....
Date: 01/15/2014
WMI provides a standardized system management infrastructure that can be leveraged by a number of...
Date: 01/09/2014
This blog discusses how to build, register and debug MI provider. Build To build MI provider, open...
Date: 12/28/2013
As discussed in Implementing MI Provider (4) - Generate Code (continute), Convert-MofToProvider.exe...
Date: 12/28/2013
As described in Implementing MI Provider (3), Convert-MofToProvider.exe tool generates a set of code...
Date: 12/28/2013
Out-of-band management is a critical tool within a datacenter (also useful to small/medium...
Date: 12/19/2013
A year ago I published an article and PowerShell module to simplify managing Standards-Based devices...
Date: 09/10/2013
In Windows 8/Windows server 2012 we introduced new Management Infrastructure (MI) API for writing...
Date: 05/16/2013
In blog Implementing MI Provider (2), we discussed schema definition of MI provider. Upon the schema...
Date: 05/11/2013
Define Schema To implement a MI provider, the first step is to model the management data, i.e., to...
Date: 05/08/2013
Blog Standards-based Management in Windows Server “8” gives overview of standard-based...
Date: 05/08/2013
Introduction The DMTF standard uses profiles to perform namespacediscovery. As an implementer of...
Date: 03/25/2013
We have an important update regarding WMF 3.0 ("Windows Management Framework") compatibility. Those...
Date: 12/19/2012
WMI team created a useful cheat sheet summarizing what's new in WMI. This is a great reference doc...
Date: 10/28/2012
Management ODATA uses the Open Data Protocol (ODATA) to expose and consume data over the Web or...
Date: 09/10/2012
We recently posted a blog post related to our new CIM Cmdlets. The post is available on the...
Date: 08/29/2012
In my last post, I discussed the concept of DMTF Management Profiles and in this blog post I’m...
Date: 08/08/2012
The investments we’ve made in Windows Server 2012 (and WMF3.0) for standards based management...
Date: 08/02/2012
We are pleased to announce availability of a highly portable, small footprint, high performance CIM...
Date: 07/02/2012
We are excited to introduce the investments we have made in Windows Server “8” through...
Date: 04/04/2012
IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a specification defined by Intel and adopted by...
Date: 03/22/2012
Beta release of Windows Server “8" is now available for download..<drum beats and...
Date: 03/02/2012
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Date: 12/03/2011
Copying blog post from PowerShell blog Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP1 makes some updated...
Date: 09/20/2011
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) has introduced a more granular control over the BITS...
Date: 02/02/2011
First, let me apologize for the lack of posts to this blog. Out original team goal was to have a new...
Date: 01/24/2011
Here's an oldie but a goodie. Heath Stewart provides example scripts on how to enable and disable...
Date: 08/30/2010
Today, we released Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for pre-Windows 7 operating systems on...
Date: 06/22/2010
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) leverages BITS and BranchCache to download patches from a...
Date: 05/28/2010
Here is an article that shows how to use Powershell to easily configure WSMan Limits....
Date: 05/07/2010
This blog entry describes the reasons behind getting "Access Denied" on certain commands run on...
Date: 05/02/2010
I found a blog which has a few helpful VBScripts to perform some common tasks....
Date: 04/27/2010
A common request that I get from customers is that they would like to use PowerShell to configure...
Date: 04/02/2010
As you may know, WinRM and WMI are implementations of public standards -- WMI is our implementation...
Date: 03/24/2010
This will be the first in a series of posts about out-of-band management. First, "out-of-band"...
Date: 03/17/2010
This blog entry explains how to collect WinRM ETW and WPP traces: WinRM ETW Traces: You can use...
Date: 03/16/2010
502 usually results from an intermediate gateway/proxy unable to understand server’s response. If...
Date: 02/25/2010
Powershell remoting is supported over load balancers with configuration described at...
Date: 02/25/2010
WinRM is hosted within IIS by enabling the WinRM native module at a particular IIS site, app or a...
Date: 02/25/2010
Since Windows Management Framework was released Oct. 2009, our customers have been excited about...
Date: 02/17/2010
We recently got a question on this blog about event forwarding. This post by Otto Helweg gives a...
Date: 01/28/2010
With Windows 7 wmi cmdlets now have support to perform tasks asynchronously. Asynchronous execution...
Date: 01/20/2010
Recently I came accross an interesting post which talks about how to use WMI with Windows Azure....
Date: 01/11/2010
Recently I came accross an interesting post which talks about how to use WMI with Windows Azure....
Date: 01/11/2010
Compare WMIC.EXE with Windows Powershell Cmdlets for WMI The WMI command-line (WMIC) utility...
Date: 01/06/2010