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Windows PowerShell and WMI StuffPresenter: Don Jones

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Reaching the Enterprise From Your Chair by Using PowerShell and WMI

o What the heck is WMI – and why is it so ugly?

o PowerShell and WMI: A Match Made in Redmond

o Tricks and Trips for Wrangling WMIo Building an Inventory Tool that Uses WMI

A Bit About Me

o Windows PowerShell MVP

o Blogger, WindowsITPro.com

o @concentrateddono Linkedin.com/in/

concentrateddon

o Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

o Windows PowerShell v2.0: TFM

o “Lunches” is available here for a special discount that includes its companion DVD!

Oh, and Buy My Book

o Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

o Get an autographed copy AND the companion video DVD shipped to you for $85.

o Cash or credit.

o Or at least check out MoreLunches.com – free articles, free videos, and lots more resources.

o Public class this October at Interface!

WMI: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

o What was WMI meant to solve?o How is WMI organized?o How do you explore WMI?o Where is WMI documented?

WMI and PowerShell

o It’s all in Get-WmiObjecto (and Invoke-WmiMethod, sometimes, or

ForEach when that doesn’t work)o Let’s look at…

– List– Filter– Class

o And how about the output?

Tips for Wrangling WMI

o Google, Google, Google. Or Bing.o Pipe objects to Format-List *o Pipe objects to Get-Membero Ask for help (from people, not Help)o The __SERVER property

Building a Tool

o Let’s make WMI useful and build a self-contained advanced function that utilizes WMI to retrieve multiple pieces of inventory information– OS version info– Disk info– BIOS information– Processor architecture

Thank you.

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