wmi News and Other Resources

Q&A

Reinstall WMI on a 2K server

November 10, 2009 7:10am PST

Reinstall WMI on a 2K server After a re-start from applying a SQL patch, the patch failed and now I cannot remotely access my server. The WMI service is no longer listed but the WMI Driver...

2 Started by thebriwalt@... | Latest comment by LarryD4

Q&A

Change the reported OS version of Win 7 to Vista

November 9, 2009 3:16pm PST

Change the reported OS version of Win 7 to Vista I have a Windows 7 machine that I need to install a piece of software on that uses a "system verifier" to check to see if all prerequisites are...

9 Started by LBrent | Latest comment by scott_heath@...

Podcasts

Managing Web Infrastructure Systems With Windows PowerShell 2.0

October 2, 2009 12:00am PDT

In this podcast the speaker speaks how Windows Powershell v2.0 can automate administrative tasks to manage critical web infrastructure systems in the data center. The speaker speaks about topics...

Provided by: Microsoft

Q&A

RPC Server Unavailable

September 30, 2009 5:16pm PDT

RPC Server Unavailable Have 4 Windows Server 2003 SP2 machines all recently upgraded from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. Can connect to SSIS on 3 out of 4. Can connect using WMI to 3 out of 4. 2 of 4 are...

2 Started by vzecher | Latest comment by Tony Hopkinson

Downloads

TheOne Server Monitor Pro 4.1.0 (Windows)

September 21, 2009 12:00am PDT

TheOne Server Monitor Pro is using to monitor the healthiness of servers, such as Unix/Linux (PING/RSH), Web (HTTP/URL), E-mail (SMTP/POP3/IMAP), Database (MySQL) and Application (FTP / Telnet /...

Provided by: TheOne Software

Downloads

TheOne Server Monitor Lite 4.0 (Windows)

September 21, 2009 12:00am PDT

TheOne Server Monitor Lite is using to monitor the healthiness of servers, such as Unix/Linux (PING/RSH), Web (HTTP/URL), E-mail (SMTP/POP3/IMAP), Database (MySQL) and Application...

Provided by: TheOne Software

Downloads

DNS on Windows Server 2003, Third Edition 1.0 (iOS)

September 3, 2009 12:00am PDT

By Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, Robbie AllenPublished by O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005627/)While computers and other devices identify each other on networks or the Internet by...

Provided by: O'Reilly Media

Discussion Threads

LDAP/WMI/SQL etc. query and reporting tools

September 1, 2009 10:03am PDT

LDAP/WMI/SQL etc. query and reporting tools What tools do you use to report and query both LDAP, WMI and SQL? Currently I haven't found one all inclusive tool that can query most big things I need...

2 Started by mlieberman@... | Latest comment by olepadre

Q&A

Active Directory/Exchange Report

August 27, 2009 2:37pm PDT

Active Directory/Exchange Report I am trying to create a basic query that I can make a basic Excel report from. I want to get the Name, Quota, and Description of each user from AD as well as the...

6 Latest comment by mlieberman@...

Q&A

Why is my OBJECTS.DATA file so big?

August 24, 2009 8:40am PDT

Why is my OBJECTS.DATA file so big? Windows XP SP3 box. Objects.data file is 3Gigs! OBJECTS.DATA is the 'WMI repository' (Windows management interface). (Why exactly I need a WMI repository,...

1 Latest comment by robo_dev

Downloads

DomainFind 0.6 (Windows)

August 17, 2009 12:00am PDT

DomainFind is a suite of tools which allows you to search an Active Directory domain for information and accomplish certain tasks with that information. At its simplest, you can search for...

Provided by: Trogsoft

Discussion Threads

Need some scripting help please.

August 11, 2009 3:21pm PDT

Need some scripting help please. In an effort to conserve energy we are implementing a policy for everyone to power off their PC's at the end of the day. I am trying to create a script that will...

2 Started by gpenunuri@... | Latest comment by neilb@...

Downloads

Free WMI Monitor 1.0 (Windows)

August 5, 2009 12:00am PDT

Setting up WMI monitoring for your Windows servers and apps can be time consuming and tedious. SolarWinds free WMI Monitor is the answer. This new free tool makes it easy to monitor your Windows...

Provided by: SolarWinds

Downloads

Serio IT Service View 5.5.04 (Windows)

July 8, 2009 12:00am PDT

Serio IT Service View is a free tool for monitoring servers and network devices. It includes standard plugins for monitoring Windows Servers, Linux Servers, Exchange servers, 'pingable' devices,...

Provided by: Serio

Q&A

Install count

June 26, 2009 12:34pm PDT

Install count Hey everyone - I am trying to find a way (or a good way) to count MS office installs within my domain. Any one have a good tool or tool and a method other than the fabled...

5 Latest comment by Derek Schauland

Q&A

wmic

June 19, 2009 5:33am PDT

wmic can i uninstall a program using wmic in xp ? I really don't know but... I'm really not an authoritative person on this, but what I know about WMI and after a cursory reading of this:...

2 Started by vjsh | Latest comment by Brenton Keegan

Q&A

WMI script for monitoring the Browser History.

June 14, 2009 2:47am PDT

WMI script for monitoring the Browser History. Hi Friends, Just wanted to have info on using WMI scripts to monitor the Browser History.Basically i want to write a WMI script where i...

1 Latest comment by runny21@...

Q&A

Remote WMI Connection issue

May 22, 2009 11:44am PDT

Remote WMI Connection issue i needed to get the free disk space on a shared remote drive. my shared-name goes something like this -- \\RemoteServer\ADrive$ ConnectionOptions oConn = new...

2 Started by sanjeev.sircar@... | Latest comment by scott_heath@...

Q&A

determine what user is logged in remotely (command line)

April 28, 2009 2:27pm PDT

determine what user is logged in remotely (command line) Windows XP: I'd like to perform an audit on the office by pinging an IP address (known) and resolving it to a hostname (unknown). I am...

9 Started by knowledgebased | Latest comment by Kelly2121

Q&A

Kill a process by Name using WMI

April 20, 2009 2:19am PDT

Kill a process by Name using WMI Hey, Im trying to kill a process by name. I have used the msdn example code of killing a process by pid. I wrote a method to get the pid using the name of the...

1 Latest comment by karthikdeepakv@...