WMI Explorer : Script-O-Matic for PowerShell

By Jesse Hamrick • February 8th, 2008

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a 3 part tutorial for WMI. In my adventures to see what others have written about on the subject, I found a remarkable tool (actually a .ps1 script) written by Marc van Orsouw aka “ThePowerShellGuy.” This is a tool even Batman should have on his utility belt, it has gotten me out of a couple of jams…

PowerShell WMI Explorer

Very simple to use:

  • Use the “Connect” button and chose the computer you wish to connect to.
  • Click on a WMI Namespace, I used ROOT\CIMV2.
  • In a moment, classes for that namespace are loaded into the “Classes” window.
  • Pick a Class, I chose “Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration.”
  • The Screen shot above doesn’t show it but there are two windows within the “Class” section. The window you see lists the methods of the class, the other lists the properties:PowerShell WMI Explorer PM

There are many features built into this tool, My favorites are error code definitions under the “Help” tab and script generation for methods under the “Methods” tab.

For more information on how to use WMI Explorer: ThePowerShellGuy web-site.

Download WMIExplorer here.

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By /\/\o\/\/ on February 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

Thanks, for the tutorials and Wmi Exlporer praises

Greetings /\/\o\/\/

By Jesse Hamrick on February 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Thanks, for sharing your hard work with the Community!

 

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