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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

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