Get-WmiObject is a powershell cmdlet that allows WML queries to be run against WMI objects on the local or remote computers.
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PowerShell to find computers in the domain, user is logged on
I am fairly new to PowerShell. I have this script working for computer names on the domain, thanks to @Adam Bertram https://4sysops.com/archives/how-to-find-a-logged-in-user-remotely-using-powershell/.
I understand it and it works fine on my domain…
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Not able to change the Service StartMode
I am automating an application deployment.
After installing and starting the service via Choco, I am trying to change the Service StartMode to Auto, but I am getting 21 as the returnvalue and hence the mode is not changed.
PS C:\Windows\system32>…
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How to query for VM features using WMI class Msvm_SummaryInformation or Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService in C++
This is code snippet from MSFT documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/example--getting-wmi-data-from-the-local-computer
The example uses Win32_OperatingSystem and it works fine. I replaced Win32_OperatingSystem with…
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Why do I get this error when trying to archive the Security event log?
$EventLog = Get-WmiObject Win32_NTEventlogFile -Filter "LogFileName = 'Security'"
$Date = Get-Date -Format yyyyMMdd
$Path =…
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How to export information about the monitor to a csv file using PowerShell?
I am new to PowerShell and am struggling to write a script to export the UserFriendlyName (see the code below) for three monitors. Here is what I have so far:
$monitors = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi -Class wmiMonitorID
Get-CimInstance…
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How to return a single integer from this WMIObject in PowerShell (Temperature)
$temps = Get-CIMInstance MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature -Namespace "root/wmi"
$temps | Select-Object -Property InstanceName,@{n="TempF";e={(($_.currenttemperature /10 -273.15) *1.8 +32)}}
I cannot seem to select-object -ExpandProperty like…
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Uninstalling software (ArcFM) with powershell with no Remove option in MSI
Summary of situation
I have some third party extension software for ArcGIS that I need to be able to uninstall with a powershell script. I have successfully installed and uninstalled a suite of software using the AppDeployToolkit for powershell but…
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What are _Base properties in Powershell and how do I use them?
Take for instance the output of
gwmi Win32_PerfRawData_PerfDisk_PhysicalDisk
Among properties we find
PercentDiskTime
and
PercentDiskTime_Base
The documentation about this class at learn.microsoft.com makes no sense to me as it only states…
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Powershell WMI Win32_LogicalDisk - Filtering on FreeSpace
I have a bigger script that sends emails when disk of various computer is under 20%. Now I have one computer that is under 20%, but has 40 GB, so I want to add a second filter to only send the email when the FreeSpace < 10 GB.
I can't get the…
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Specified cast not valid on ManagementObjectSearcher
When I run the code below in a virtual machine then I'm getting the following exception on the .Get() function: Specified cast is not valid
For Each queryObj As ManagementObject In New ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_BaseBoard").Get()
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Powershell script to get IPv4 only
I'm trying to get IPv4 only from my computer which has multiple IPv4 addresses.
The output contains IPv6 also as below:
10.24.21.115
fe80::8029:4127:55a6:4328
192.168.0.2
fe80::ac59:de9a:c9db:b5d8
Tried filtering like $_.ipaddress -notlike "fe80*"…
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Does not get expected result using Invoke-VMScript to query wmi disk
Good Day
I'm trying to add information on the the disk path to the original script, below, which match VM and Windows harddisks.
http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/12/match-vm-and-windows-harddisks-using-powercli/
When the same code is executed using…
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Interacting with Get-WmiObject via .NET core
I need to get information about system. I can get it from Get-WmiObject with Powershell. But I need to gather it with .NET core application.
I'm able to execute some basic commands like Get-Command or Get-Process.
When i try to exexute…
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How to get CPU percentage in powershell without using performance counter objects?
I'm trying to get CPU Percentage from multiple computers in my organization and some of these computers due to registry failure or corruption, their performance counters doesn't return any data. I've been trying to find a code to find the CPU…
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How to resolve a gwmi : Invalid class "WmiMonitorID" PowerShell error?
I getting the following error:
gwmi : Invalid class "WmiMonitorID"
At line:1 char:1
+ gwmi WmiMonitorID -Namespace root\wmi | ForEach-Object {($_.UserFrie ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidType: (:)…
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