As promised here are some more details on the new version of the WMI Explorer. One of the main flaws of the old versions was that it only worked on the current machine. With the 2014 version you can connect…
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WMI Explorer 2014 is now officially released as of April 17th 2014. Please go here for more details.
For many years now administrators have used SAPIEN’s WMI Explorer to get a handle on WMI classes and their properties and…
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We are always looking at improving our products or adding useful features. When we originally created the WMI part inside PrimalScript’s object browser, it was all about WMI properties. But many WMI classes have methods too and we felt you…
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This month’s PowerShell one-liner queries the WMI Win32_Product class for a specified computer and builds a formatted report of all installed applications sorted by vendor. You’ll be able to tell at a glance what is installed, when it was installed,…
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Lately I seem to be answering a number of PowerShell XML related questions. When that happens I figure its time for an example. I have a script that I think originally was posted in a forum. I apologize that I…
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In my last Mr. Roboto column, I wrote about the open source project, PolyMonRT. I recently suggested it to someone as a solution, especially because PolyMonRT supports PowerShell as a provider. My friend wanted to use the status light indicator…
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I love that part of my job is helping people out in the forums as ScriptingAnswers.com. A recent post asked about finding out what network drives were mapped on a remote computer using PowerShell. The task sounded familiar so I…
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This topic came up recently in the PowerShell forum at ScriptingAnswers.com and I thought you might find it helpful. The issue was creating a file share remotely. In the “olden days”, this would have meant using a command line tool…
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If you subscribe to the SAPIEN newsletter you should have seen this already. If not, why don’t you take a moment to subscribe? Create an account at my.SAPIEN.com and you’ll automatically be subscribed. Each month you’ll get all the latest…
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I continue to play with PrimalForms and I know many of you are as well. I thought I’d share a few other techniques for creating scripts and moving between the code generated by PrimalForms and the script you create in…
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