Saturday, March 02, 2013

WMI Explorer–Where’s It Gone–A Temporary Solution

As a trainer, teaching PowerShell, I use WMI Explorer heavily. For those who may be unfamiliar, this is a PowerShell script that displays information about WMI on a system. Written by MOW, a PowerShell MVP, it is for me the best tool I can find for displaying WMI data to the class.
The bad news is that for some reason, it’s old home is not resolving – so all the search engine listings point to a host that for some reason is not there.

In the meantime, I’ve put a copy here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kuyoyFSc-wNRZBZjWI3aNjIMdw48hYS9Av4S_iNMBwI/edit?usp=sharing

3 comments:

N said...

As an alternative, there's wmi tools from MS: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24045

As an alternative alternative, you can use this script: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2NsJYTdBCaGU3lIcUZUamlsUG8/edit?usp=sharing My apologies for the code; wrote it a long time ago and haven't looked at it since, though I often use it. Just run it like:

./wmi-search.ps1 somepattern

and it should bring up any class that matches the pattern.

Unknown said...

zip file cannot be downloaded. It looks like an sharepoint but authorization seems not to work. Any alternative link?

Thanks
Kostas

Thomas Lee said...

The RESKIT.ORG place is gone.

Email me and I'll send you the copy