As you probably know, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of the Distributed Management Task Force's (DMTF's) Web-Based...
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FREE: MoW PowerShell WMI Browser

We’ve been looking at a number of tools for exploring WMI. The last one I want to discuss is...
FREE: SAPIEN Technologies WMI Explorer

In my previous article I demonstrated how to use the free WMI Tools from Microsoft for exploring WMI. One...
FREE: WMI Administrative Tools – WMI Object Browser and WMI CIM Studio

In previously published articles I demonstrated how to use the free WBEMTest utility to validate connectivity and credentials. While...
WBEMTest – Part 3: Tips and tricks

In the last few articles we’ve been exploring using WBEMTest for testing WMI connectivity and queries. This is often...
WBEMTest – Part 2: WMI queries

In the first part of the series we looked at using a utility called WBEMTest that is included with...
WBEMTest – Part 1: Testing WMI connectivity

Since the days of Windows XP we have had a utility for testing and exploring WMI, yet in my...
How to scope Group Policy with WMI filters

In this article you will learn how to create Group Policy Objects (GPOs) by leveraging the power of Windows...