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After some silence, being very busy at Work, the MVP summit and MMS 2008,To Show I'm still alive, a teaser of what I was working on over last weekend : As PowerShell in the latest CTP now supports STA mode we can use WPF see also Jaykul's blog entries WPF From PowerShell - A Splash Screen WPF From PowerShell - Updating ...

In this Newsgroup thread, from the PowerShell newsgroup , there is an question that involves 2 nested relative WMI Queries,  former answers included  difficult querystring contstructing and escaping work, this is where the .NET WMI query helpers become of incredible use see the following script : # Nested related WMI query example # ...

After a small pause, the last one (episode 6) was 3 month's ago, Jonathan Walz ''is back and'' posted a new Episode in his excelent PowerShell Podcast series at http://PowerScripting.net. If you are interested in PowerShell, I think this Podcast series realy is a must follow !, If you do not ...

  Thomas Lee, mentions my PowerShell WMI Explorer in his PC pro article about WMI http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/119761/managing-with-wmi.html Enjoy,  Greetings /\/\o\/\/ PS the 2 typo's in my name are forgiven ;-)

  PSEventing 0.5 Beta released !! PSeventing is a very powerful PowerShell Snapin providing a library for handling events in PowerShell, a must have extension to PowerShell !!   Eventhanding suport is a bit limited for version 1.0 of PowerShell, there are some threading problems with for example the .NET filewatcher see : ...

Ars technica did an article about PowerShell : Microsoft PowerShell rolled into Longhorn Server In this article two PowerShell examples from my blog are used : How to get the uptime of a specific service: $s = gwmi win32_service -filter ''name = 'spooler'''  ''{0}'' -f ((get-date) - ([wmi]'').ConvertToDateTime((gwmi ...

We will go on here from the Second post about deleting a share : PowerShell WMI Explorer Part 2 we go on by doubleclicking Create on go on with the Create help and templates Note this information on top of the class :    Win32_Share Method : Create OverloadDefinitions:System.Management.ManagementBaseObject ...

In the first part of this series : PowerShell WMI Explorer Part 1 we used the browser to explore the classes in this second post I will show how we can generate and use template scripts and help for calling WMI methods and how to use them. For this example I go on from the win32_share class I also used as an example in the fist part, and ...

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. Whenever possible I try to discover alternatives to WMI and I’ve found what I think is ...

I made a PowerShell GUI WMI Explorer, to explore WMI from PowerShell in a graphical interface  *Edit* updated the script fixing 2 bugs (see comments)  The WMI Explorer will also provide help information for the WMI classes and about methods and properties available, also it will generate Template ...