I wondered which filters you guys all use for your Group Policies? For example I have a piece of software where I need to deploy a different MSI for Windows XP than I do Windows Vista or Windows 7.

When doing a WMI query using ManagementObject, e.g. against Select * FROM Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_PagingFile, I'm getting two returns for a single value (same for percentprocessortime, it is ...

Goverlan last week said it's giving away its version of its GUI-based Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) tool for remote desktop management and control. The company's WMI Explorer (WMIX) lets IT ...

WMI is the acronym for Windows Management Instrumentation, a COM based Microsoft technology used to retrieve system related information. You can use this technology to retrieve the CPU ID, MAC ID, etc ...

I'm preparing for a class I'm teaching this Fall (see www.scriptingtraining.com for the details) and I was playing around with WMI, trying to come up with some good techniques for fine-tuning queries.

When a key service goes down on a server, you will usually hear about it from a user or another office such as the help desk when they begin receiving calls from users. It's also entirely possible ...