When mounting VHD files on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 using Diskpart, we always find it difficult to see the newly added drive letter. This trick using WMI events helps you get the newly added drive letter.
I came across this question on StackOverflow yesterday. The question was about finding the version details of a specific DLL from a list of remote computers. There are multiple ways to achieve this. The most easiest one would be to use PowerShell Remoting. This was my first answer to that question.
These posts in the form of an ebook now available Back in July, 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 valid since the entire blog content went through a churn. So, I thought it will be good to publish one post with links to all articles in this series. So, here it is — all 10 parts of the series. 1. WMI query language – An introduction 2. WMI query language – Keywords and Operators 3. WMI query language – Data Queries: SELECT, FROM, and WHERE 4. WMI query language – Data Queries: Associators Of 5. WMI query language – Data Queries: References Of 6. WMI query language – Event Queries: Introduction 7. WMI query language – Event Queries: Syntax 8. WMI query language – Event Queries: …
These posts in the form of an ebook now available Here are the links to all articles in this series of posts on WQL. 1. WMI query language – An introduction 2. WMI query language – Keywords and Operators 3. WMI query language – Data Queries: SELECT, FROM, and WHERE 4. WMI query language – Data Queries: Associators Of 5. WMI query language – Data Queries: References Of 6. WMI query language – Event Queries: Introduction 7. WMI query language – Event Queries: Syntax 8. WMI query language – Event Queries: Intrinsic Events 9. WMI query language – Event Queries: Extrinsic Events 10. WMI query language – Schema queries (this post) In this last and final part of this series, we will look at how to use WQL for querying the WMI schema. Schema queries are used to retrieve class definitions (rather than class instances) and schema associations. In simple words, if you need to find out what type of information (this is what schema really means) a specific class holds, you use schema queries.Here is …
These posts in the form of an ebook now available Here are the links to all articles in this series of posts on WQL. 1. WMI query language – An introduction 2. WMI query language – Keywords and Operators 3. WMI query language – Data Queries: SELECT, FROM, and WHERE 4. WMI query language – Data Queries: Associators Of 5. WMI query language – Data Queries: References Of 6. WMI query language – Event Queries: Introduction 7. WMI query language – Event Queries: Syntax 8. WMI query language – Event Queries: Intrinsic Events 9. WMI query language – Event Queries: Extrinsic Events (this post) 10. WMI query language – Schema queries In this part of the WQL series, we shall look at extrinsic events. Extrinsic events represent events that do not directly link to standard WMI model. For example, Windows registry defines extrinsic events for all registry change events. For intrinsic events, having a WMI provider isn’t mandatory. This is mostly because they are defined within the standard WMI model and WMI takes care of these …
These posts in the form of an ebook now available Here are the links to all articles in this series of posts on WQL. 1. WMI query language – An introduction 2. WMI query language – Keywords and Operators 3. WMI query language – Data Queries: SELECT, FROM, and WHERE 4. WMI query language – Data Queries: Associators Of 5. WMI query language – Data Queries: References Of 6. WMI query language – Event Queries: Introduction 7. WMI query language – Event Queries: Syntax 8. WMI query language – Event Queries: Intrinsic Events (this post) 9. WMI query language – Event Queries: Extrinsic Events 10. WMI query language – Schema queries In this part of the WQL series, I will introduce intrinsic WMI events. Intrinsic events are used to monitor a resource represented by a class in the CIM repository. In other words, the intrinsic events occur in response to a change in the standard WMI data model. WMI creates intrinsic events for objects stored in the WMI repository. A provider generates intrinsic events for dynamic classes, but WMI …
These posts in the form of an ebook now available Here are the links to all articles in this series of posts on WQL. 1. WMI query language – An introduction 2. WMI query language – Keywords and Operators 3. WMI query language – Data Queries: SELECT, FROM, and WHERE 4. WMI query language – Data Queries: Associators Of 5. WMI query language – Data Queries: References Of 6. WMI query language – Event Queries: Introduction 7. WMI query language – Event Queries: Syntax (This post) 8. WMI query language – Event Queries: Intrinsic Events 9. WMI query language – Event Queries: Extrinsic Events 10. WMI query language – Schema queries The WMI query syntax for event queries is a bit different and deserves a discussion. So, before we delve in to the types of event queries, let us first look at the syntax for WQL event queries. As we discussed earlier, we use SELECT statement for event queries too. We can combine this with other keywords such as WITHIN, HAVING, and GROUP to change how we …
These posts in the form of an ebook now available Here are the links to all articles in this series of posts on WQL. 1. WMI query language – An introduction 2. WMI query language – Keywords and Operators 3. WMI query language – Data Queries: SELECT, FROM, and WHERE 4. WMI query language – Data Queries: Associators Of 5. WMI query language – Data Queries: References Of 6. WMI query language – Event Queries: Introduction (this post) 7. WMI query language – Event Queries: Syntax 8. WMI query language – Event Queries: Intrinsic Events 9. WMI query language – Event Queries: Extrinsic Events 10. WMI query language – Schema queries In this post, I will write a bit about basics of WMI events and how Register-WMIEvent cmdlet can be used. To start with, here is an excerpt from Microsoft Scripting guide that introduces WMI events: Just as there is a WMI class that represents each type of system resource that can be managed using WMI, there is a WMI class that represents each type of WMI …
