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WMIC: Leveraging the power of WMI
18 April 08 06:00 AM

We’ve covered different pieces of WMI in previous posts, but we have yet to discuss the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-Line (WMIC) in detail.  The WMIC provides administrators easy access to the WMI infrastructure.  Prior to Read More...

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WMI Troubleshooting: Impersonation Rights
16 October 07 07:50 AM

Today we're going to take a look at an issue that is fairly common when dealing with WMI failures.  Starting with Windows XP, WMI providers are hosted in a separate process called WMIPRVSE.  Most of the time this provider host runs in the context Read More...

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WMI Troubleshooting: Permissions
14 August 07 06:14 AM

Back in June, we published our post on Basic WMI Testing . Today we're going to go over some common issues and ways that you can troubleshoot and recover from them - specifically rights and permissions. We're not going to get into troubleshooting scripts Read More...

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