Complete WMI query guide with WMI Explorer, Powershell, CMD.

The Ask the Performance Team has published a WMI Code Creator tool that allows queries your local WMI repository on your computer. This too can be useful if you want to find the WMI values to use with a WQL query filter for your Group Policy Objects (GPO). The tool itself does not actually create a WQL query for WMI.

Before WMIC, the power of WMI was typically accessed via programs or custom scripts. For example, let’s say you wanted to find out the type of CPU inside your system. In the past, you might have written a short VBScript script that uses WMI to query the name of the CPU on the local system.

Using wildcards and like statements in WMI queries and scripts 2012-07-09 by Jason Continuing to take advantage of using WMI to get data from workstations, another project recently came up to get an inventory of printers installed across my organization.

I have been using WMI a lot these days and got to play with WQL as well. In this series of posts, I want to write about how WMI Query Language (WQL) can be used to retrieve management data exposed by WMI. Yes, this has nothing to do with PowerShell but as a PowerShell lover (and a MVP now), I will use PowerShell for all my examples.

For VBScript and the Scripting API for WMI, retrieve an SWbemServices object with a moniker and a call to GetObject. Alternately, you can connect to the server with a call to SWbemLocator.ConnectServer. You can then use the object to access a specific WMI namespace or WMI class instance.

On Group Policy Management console, right click WMI Filters and select New. 2. Adding WMI query. Give appropriate name and description to the WMI filter, in this example the filter name is “Global 10.x”. After that, click Add button to start adding WMI query. 3. Writing WMI query. Select the appropriate namespace and write the query. In.

WMI provider developers write their classes in the MOF language - once their classes are constructed in MOF, the developer can supply the class definitions to WMI. This can be done by compiling a MOF file into a binary MOF file (BMF) and giving the BMF files to the Windows Driver Model (WDM) infrastructure.

To run WMI queries, you need to leverage the WMI infrastructure, which is typically done from a .Net Framework application, a script language, etc. However, you can access WMI indirectly from T-SQL. There are probably numerous ways to do this, in fact. In this post we will examine the use of WMIC.exe, a command line tool for WMI.

Interestingly, the ability to specify the query language has little value because the only supported language for querying WMI is WQL. It is conceivable, however, that future releases of WMI will support alternative query languages, such as XPath, for instance. Until then, explicitly setting the query language is not required and is best avoided.

Windows Management Instrumentation, otherwise known as WMI, provides a standard interface in order to allow interaction with Windows-based system regardless of the hardware and Windows version. In this tutorial, you will learn what Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is and how to interact with it.

Learn WMI Query Language using PowerShell. written by Ravikanth.. I started a series of articles on WMI query language. There has been lot of delay in finishing up the series and when I did finish it, there were several issues with my blog. I had to re-write last two parts of the series. So, lot of links you might have bookmarked may not be.