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Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows-based operating systems. You can write WMI scripts or applications to automate administrative tasks on remote computers but WMI also supplies management data to other parts of the operating system and products, for example System Center Operations Manager, formerly Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), or Windows Remote Management (WinRM).

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Remote Administer Local Groups with PowerShell and WMI

How do I administer local groups on a remote server with PowerShell and WMI? For example, I would like to add and remove domain AD groups from the "Remote Desktop Users" group. This article provides a script for listing users while this article…
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'The RPC server is unavailable' when converting a physical ISA/Forefront TMG machine to virtual (P2V) in SCVMM

When I try to convert a physical ISA/TMG machine to virtual using SCVMM, i keep getting an error in the Collect machine configuration step ('Scan Now' button): VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent MACHINE_NAME was…
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Is there a perfmon replacement?

I need faster stats polling and more granular display than once a second... Is there a way to configure perfmon to poll/display on faster intervals? Or is there an alternative that can query the same stats at higher frequencies?
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WMIC command to find update

Is there a way to find if multiple MS updates are installed using WMIC command: wmic qfe | find ? Thanks
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Configuring ZenOSS to monitor CPU load

I'm trying test out monitoring tools for a network at work with a coworker but neither of us have ever used an sort of monitoring tools before. Currently we are experimenting with ZenOSS and having some difficulties. We want to populate our CPU load…
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WMI query to check setting "Reversible Encryption" in Windows XP

In Windows XP, there are two settings in Group Policy I'm looking at: Password must meet complexity requirements Store password using reversible encryption Both of these settings are under Local Computer Policy/Computer Config/Windows…
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Cannot lookup domain objects using WMI when connected to remote server

I have a VBscript on server10 that takes a parameter of a server name, connects to the server name and queries WMI for information about members of groups. Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Using the…
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Monitor if Perfmon counter sets are running

We have an issue where occasionally over time, a Perfmon counter set will stop. We are looking for a way to monitor if a particular counter set is running, does anyone know of a way to do this? We use Nagios for basic alerting but we have another…
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WMI Security issue

When I am trying to access WMI from a remote domain controller using WMIMGMT.MSC, I keep getting "Failed to connect to \(remote server) because 'Win32: Access is denied.'. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? I have tried many…
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Complete server snapshot for troubleshooting performance?

From time to time, something happens to our website that makes it slow and unresponsive. Inevitably, this happens at like 3 AM, on a day when all the devs have gone to bed early. Are there any good tools for taking a "snapshot" of the state of the…
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PC inventory system that does not rely on WMI

I'm looking for a software that can make an inventory of the PCs on your network for an SMB environment. I know ther are plenty (Spiceworks, LanSweeper, etc). But they all rely on WMI to function. The problem is I have so many problems with getting…
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Reporting Services WMI Provider error 8000000A

I recently installed SQL Server Express 2005 with all available options. When I run Start->Programs->SQL Server 2005->Reporting Services Configuration I get an error immediatley: "An unknown error has occurred in the WMI Provider. Error Code…
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How can I use WMIC to add an user to the administrator of a remote computer?

Does anyone know of a way (other than psexec) to add a user to the local administrators group of a remote machine? I'm having trouble figuring out the syntax for wmic.
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How to list the top level folders of a drive using VBScript?

I'm looking for VBScript code that will list the top level folders of the D: drive and not the subfolders. I use the following WMI query so far but it gives me all folders and goes down to many levels. Also seems to just stop for a reason I have…
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How can i programmatically find out how many resources a IIS server has and the traffic on each resource .. etc

I want to write a program to find out what resources an IIS server has and how many hits are there on each resource. The resource can be anything from a html page to files like sound clips, pictures , etc. I want to find out a list of all these…
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