Questions tagged [wmi]

Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows-based operating systems. You can write WMI scripts or applications to automate administrative tasks on remote computers but WMI also supplies management data to other parts of the operating system and products, for example System Center Operations Manager, formerly Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), or Windows Remote Management (WinRM).

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How to shutdown remote Win2k8 machine using WMIC?

What is the exact syntax to shutdown remote Win2k8 server using WMIC? (The reason WMIC must be used is because the remote machine in a different NT Domain and the local machine does not have access to that domain. WMIC takes /user: and /password:…
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"wmi driver extensions" "windows server 2008" how to install

I'm trying to setup a Services on a Win2008 64 bit server. This services depends on the WMI Driver Extensions, but I can't find where to install it from or download it to install. Does anyone have any ideas where I could find the resources to do…
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Remotly get a list of running programs on xp?

I have a bunch of pc's the I need to remotly restart, however I don't want to restart them if they are running certian applications (such as word, excell etc). Is it possible to get a list of running applications or programs using WMI or some other…
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Setting WMI permissions remotely on windows server 2003

I am a programmer , I don know the server well. I made a simple program checking the service on the remote server is started or not. by using this(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwd0y33x(v=VS.90).aspx) but the permission should be set. and…
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Can you have a WMI query for GPO Filter based on user's OU?

I'm wondering if there is a way to have a WMI query check the OU of the user logging on. I'd like a GPO (linked to Citrix servers OU) to apply only to users if the user is in a certain OU - this is for Citrix so the overly obvious answer of - well…
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How to enable WMI Provider MSCluster on MS Server 2008 R2

I have successfully set up a failover cluster on Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition. Now I want to talk to the MSCluster WMI Provider on said server. WMI Queries to e.g. CIMV2 successed. But queries like select * from…
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WMI Filter Does not Apply After Updates

I have a GPO with this WMI filter: SELECT Name From Win32_ServerFeature WHERE Name = 'Web Server (IIS)' The GPO has a startup script meant to modify a file to instruct the load balancer that the server is OK to send traffic to. Normally, when…
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Could not establish WMI connection access is denied

I set up a lab to test domain joining multiple computers with a script from Microsoft. After I ran the script it came back with could not establish a WMI connection with the computer with the following error message:access is denied. There are two…
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WMI issue - Access Denied - tearing my hair out!

I'm getting a weird access denied error for WMI on one of our servers that I can't understand. It appears to fail from any PC/Server that's attached to our domain, yet if I try it from my laptop that isn't part of the domain, it works! I've checked…
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Calling WMI on a remote machine with PacketIntegrity authentication level (with KB5004442 activated)

I'm trying to retrieve a WMI objects on a remote machine using the following powershell code : Get-WmiObject -ComputerName mymachine -class Win32_operatingSystem -Authentication PacketIntegrity However, as the…
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Is it possible to check a client Windows PC's registry to see if it is joined to an Azure AD domain?

On a Windows PC joined to a 'traditional' Active Directory domain, querying Win32_ComputerSystem or Win32_NTDomain returns the domain name. It seems that if it's Azure anything [joined], those classes return nothing. Our software won't run unless it…
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Windows 10 Offline files synchronization monitoring

There is a class in WMI ROOT\CIMV2 named Win32_OfflineFilesHealth with property LastSuccessfulSyncTime. But the class is having no instances even if I have Offline files enabled and I'm using it. What I'm doing wrong? Is there any other way to get…
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How to programmatically query the default user's proxy auto-config URL setting?

Greetings. I have a requirement to retrieve the default user's Internet Explore Proxy Auto Config URL setting from Windows Server 2008. For the current user, the key is found at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet…
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Find Windows VolumeId from FilePath

Problem I want to find the VolumeId that my file is on using the file path. The Best Solution That I Can Think Of The best way that I can think of accomplishing this is to query out via WMI/CIM all of the disk partition access paths for all of the…
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Uninstalled Program(s) still appear in WMI Object “WIN32_InstalledStoreProgram”?

Note: This is a repost from an original post on StackOverflow. I was directed here by a helpful user, and am simply reposting. I made a StackOverflow account for the first time due to this annoying issue. I was solving vulnerabilities on a Test PC…
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