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Query over the content of CIM repository on Windows Machines that uses WQL (Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language ).

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how to check service state using vbscript?

Is there anyway to check the status of service using vbscript ? I would like to have a function for each possible service state : LINK Any help would be great. I did write a function for checking if service is stopped : Public Function…
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Updating via WMI

I need an example of an update query using WMI. I have searched but I couldn´t find anything. Can anyone paste some sample code if possible? Thanks.
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How to export all rows of a WMI query to a file?

Given a query such as SELECT * FROM WIN32_PROCESS Is there a way to interrogate the result object for the names of the columns returned? Write all the rows in the result object to a text file, say
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Query WMI remotely with PHP

My current code looks like this: define ( 'CPU_NAME', 'remote_server' ); $obj = new COM ( 'winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}//' . CPU_NAME . '/root/cimv2' ); if ( is_object ( $obj ) ){ $process = $obj->execquery ( "SELECT * FROM…
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Alternative to Win32_Product?

After playing around with querying Win32_Product to find a software version, I couldn't understand why the results were so dog-slow. As much as 15 times slower than querying Win32_service or Win32_process. So coming here to see if I'm missing…
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Get Link Speed - Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface

I found Determining the network connection link speed and now I am trying to correlate the data from Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface with Win32_NetworkAdapter (or Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration). On the class…
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ManagementException - Invalid Class

I am having an issue querying WMI that has me completely baffled. The Application I am building utilizes WMI counters that are installed as part of the VMware View Agent into a VDI desktop. The counters provide information about the remote display…
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Powershell get-item VersionInfo.ProductVersion incorrect / different than WMI

I'm trying to understand why Powershell would get back a different version number for a DLL file than what both the file properties page from Windows Explorer, and a WMI query shows. (I apologize in advance if this doesn't correctly qualify as a…
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List of WMIEvent classes

Recently I have been learning about WMI and WQL. I found out the list of Win32 classes (from MSDN) that I can query for but I am not able to find out the list of event classes (should be the subset of the list of Win32 classes isn't it ?) Does any…
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WMI query in C# does not work on NON-English Machine

I am creating an application that needs to track when a process starts, then raise an event when it's finished. I have code that works perfectly, and does exactly what I need on an English machine, but when I run the same application on a French…
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Powershell - check if a CD is in CD-ROM drive

Is this possible? My first guess would be something like: C:> Get-WmiObject Win32_CDROMDrive But when I tried this, it only tells me Caption, Drive, Manufacturer,VolumeName No information on whether or not there is a CD in the disc drive.
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using WMI to uninstall applications remotely

I am trying to write a mini w32 executable to remotely uninstall an application using WMI. I can list all the installed applications using this code below but i couldnt find a way to uninstall the application remotely thru WMI and C# I know I can…
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USE WMI and WMQ to get Logical Disk and Partition Information from Win32_PnPEntity of SERVICE type USBSTOR

I am detecting when our proprietary USB device is attached to a PC. When we detect this, we get the related Win32_PnPEntity. We want to use this Win32_PnPEntity as a source of the following information: - USB Descriptor VID, PID, REV, Firmware…
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WQL does not support TOP - need workaround

WQL (basically SQL for WMI) does not support a TOP or LIMIT keyword. Sql Server used TOP and many other RDBMSs supprt LIMIT etc. Is there a workaround to emulating a SELECT query to behave as though it had a TOP/LIMIT clause that limits the result…
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Decrease WMI query execution time

In my application i want to see if windows 7 is activated. To be clear, i do not want to check if windows are genuine. I use the code below, found here http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/166690-wmi-softwarelicensingproduct/ The time needed to…
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