WMI Filters for Group Policy to manage Windows Server versions

...GPO WMI Filter If you need to match a computer name in your GPO WMI Filter, you can use the following: WMI Query GPMC WMI Filter Query to select by...
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...GPO WMI Filter If you need to match a computer name in your GPO WMI Filter, you can use the following: WMI Query GPMC WMI Filter Query to select by...

...relies on WMI to monitor SQL Server services, and WMI providers can get uninstalled accidentally. Managed Object Format (MOF) describes WMI classes and is compiled into the WMI repository to...

...Optimize WMI performance and memory usage in Windows Server. Windows Server logs WMI messages in Microsoft-Windows-WMI-Activity/Operational. Monitor this log in Zabbix if you want to 🙂 . First, to increase WMI...

WMI Query GPMC WMI Filter

WMI Query GPMC WMI Filter Query to select Windows Server 2022 by Version property

WMI Query GPMC WMI Filter Query to select by Name property

WMI Architecture – relationship between wmi infrastructure, wmi providers, and managed objects...

...using Powershell WMI / CIM and Win32_PerfRawData_NETFramework_NETCLRMemory Windows Performance Counters. The abbreviation WMI stands for “Windows Management Instrumentation”, and CIM for “Common Information Model”. I wrote more about them: https://www.saotn.org/?s=wmi,...

Zabbix can harnas the powers of WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) to query the Windows system for data. In Zabbix you use wmi.getall for this. Here is a small introduction to...

...-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File C:\path\to\zabbix\scripts\w3wp-wmi.ps1 -action discovery UserParameter=FetchAppPoolInfo[*],powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File C:\zabbix\scripts\w3wp-wmi.ps1 -action getapppoolinfo A PowerShell script w3wp-wmi.ps1 is called and doing all the heavy lifting. From autodiscovery (“-action discovery”...

...an SID by the username. The VBS code utilizes WMI, that’s fine because it’s something we’re familiar with. Option explicit Dim objAccount, strComputer, strUser Dim objWMIService If WScript.Arguments.Count < 1...

Monitor your website performance on IIS with Zabbix, Performance Counters, PowerShell and WMI, because it is important to keep an eye on website and webserver performance. For this, Zabbix is...

...PowerShell APIs. The Get-WMiObject Cmdlet – Retrieving Data Using WMI In scripts you often see the use of Get-WMiObject cmdlet. WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation. You may wonder why...

...Fix broken WMI provider in SQL Server Conclusion and giveway You can use Zabbix and PowerShell / WMI / PerfCounters to monitor a lot in Microsoft SQL Server. It takes...

One of the methods to check the network adapter speed via PowerShell is to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) interface. An easy to use PowerShell snippet to detect the ethernet...

...it using Get-Counter cmdlet in PowerShell of course. But in post I’ll show you a different – and perhaps even faster – method using WMI / CIM and Win32_PerfRawData_W3SVC_WebService. Read...

...$_.InstalledOn -lt "${Tomorrow}" } Win32_QuickFixEngineering WMI Because the Get-HotFix cmdlet uses the Win32_QuickFixEngineering WMI class to list hotfixes that are installed on the local computer, you can use WMI searcher...
...broken WMI provider in SQL Server by Jan Reilink 2025-08-27 Being unable to open SQL Server Configuration Manager if often caused by a corrupt or removed WMI provider for SQL...

...System.Version "10.0")) { Write-Host "Windows Server 2016" } Or use WMI/CIM’s Win32_OperatingSystem class, for example: (Get-CimInstance -class Win32_OperatingSystem).Caption This’ll return something like Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard. WMI Filters for...

...updates for Windows Server? Here is how to uninstall and remove Adobe Flash Player in Windows Server. Here are some more WMI filters to manage Windows Server versions. Continue when...