WMIC: Leveraging the power of WMI

re: WMIC: Leveraging the power of WMI

EDF — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:31:31 GMT

What advantage does this have over powershell? Both look like you need to be more of a programmer than an admin to get the power out of them, so I don't know which would I should learn.

re: WMIC: Leveraging the power of WMI

Scott Bateman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:27:22 GMT

One major benefit of WMIC over powershell is the ability to look at information on remote machines using the /node: command.

For a good example of where WMIC is far superior, just try using powershell to check the OS version installed on 3 different machines. You'll find yourself using the powershell WMI methods which are much harder to get to and require a lot more typing than WMIC.

re: WMIC: Leveraging the power of WMI

ABHIJAY .KS — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:44:36 GMT

THIS ONE IS OF GREAT HELP FOR ME.

THANKS

re: WMIC: Leveraging the power of WMI

Stephen Galbincea — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:22:28 GMT

I am trying to form a query in WMIC that will return a list of machines that have a particular program installed, such as Windows Search 4. I have a text file that I have created with a list of all the machines on the domain that I am inputting as the nodes, but I am having trouble formulating the query and getting it to output the list of machines to another text file. My goal here is to then take that list of machines and run an uninstall command on just those machines as opposed to running it against all nodes on our network. Any advice is welcome!

re: WMIC: Leveraging the power of WMI

Timmothy Lester — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:13:51 GMT

Stephen Galbincea, This is not the place to ask that question.

Try using something like:

For /f %%a in (serverlist.txt) do (

wmic /node:%%a QFE get /format:list |find /i "program_name"

IF not errorlevel 1 (echo %servername% has "program_name" installed Greaterthansign greaterthansign List_of_servers_with_program_installed.txt )

)