new-blogentry -topic Powershell

Comparing Win32_PingStatus vs [System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping]

Back again with another comparison between .NET and WMI performance. While WMI can be very useful and often the only way to accomplish some remote oriented tasks, you will rarely hear anyone that has worked with WMI classes for long brag about its performance.

Listing Remote Services without using WMI

WMI seems to get recommended for most "remote" queries in powershell. This is due in large part because the get-wmiobject cmdlet includes built in support for querying remote machines. However, I've found that WMI can be slow and whenever I find a dotnet