This slide deck presentation introduces Windows PowerShell and WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) and provides tips on using them together. The presenter is Don Jones, a Windows PowerShell MVP. The presentation covers what WMI is, how it is organized and explored, its documentation, how to use it with PowerShell through Get-WmiObject and other cmdlets. It also provides tips for handling WMI output and building an inventory tool using WMI to retrieve system information like OS version, disks, BIOS, and processor architecture. Attendees are invited to use the materials freely and provided information on other resources from the presenter.

1. WELCOME TO TECH | IMMERSION Windows PowerShell and WMI Stuff Presenter: Don Jones

2. This slide deck was used in one of our many conference presentations. We hope you enjoy it, and invite you to use it within your own organization however you like. For more information on our company, including information on private classes and upcoming conference appearances, please visit our Web site, www.ConcentratedTech.com. For links to newly-posted decks, follow us on Twitter:@concentrateddon or @concentratdgreg This work is copyright ©Concentrated Technology, LLC

3. Reaching the Enterprise From Your Chair by Using PowerShell and WMI What the heck is WMI – and why is it so ugly? PowerShell and WMI: A Match Made in Redmond Tricks and Trips for Wrangling WMI Building an Inventory Tool that Uses WMI

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6. WMI: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly What was WMI meant to solve? How is WMI organized? How do you explore WMI? Where is WMI documented?

7. WMI and PowerShell It’s all in Get-WmiObject (and Invoke-WmiMethod, sometimes, or ForEach when that doesn’t work) Let’s look at… List Filter Class And how about the output?

8. Tips for Wrangling WMI Google, Google, Google. Or Bing. Pipe objects to Format-List * Pipe objects to Get-Member Ask for help (from people, not Help) The __SERVER property

9. Building a Tool Let’s make WMI useful and build a self-contained advanced function that utilizes WMI to retrieve multiple pieces of inventory information OS version info Disk info BIOS information Processor architecture

10. Thank you.

11. This slide deck was used in one of our many conference presentations. We hope you enjoy it, and invite you to use it within your own organization however you like. For more information on our company, including information on private classes and upcoming conference appearances, please visit our Web site, www.ConcentratedTech.com. For links to newly-posted decks, follow us on Twitter:@concentrateddon or @concentratdgreg This work is copyright ©Concentrated Technology, LLC