Using Windows Management Infrastructure, or WMI, Windows admins can create filters to apply GPOs more granular on specific versions of Windows Server. In this post I provide some basic examples....
Get-WmiObject Class Win32_OperatingSystem Select Version Name ProductType
Get-CimInstance Class Win32_OperatingSystem example, listing Version, Name and ProductType
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
You can’t install IIS URL Rewrite Module on Windows Server 2016 and IIS 10.0, because it exits with an incompatibility error “IIS version 7.0 or greater is required to install...
IIS URL Rewrite Module error: IIS Version 7.0 or greater is required to install IIS URL Rewrite Module 2.
Windows Installer command-line parameters and options, in Dutch...
How to find and view all symbolic, soft links, junction points and hard links in a folder in Windows Server quickly? Use dir /al /s /b or PowerShell. When you...
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In this post I show you how to remove HTTP response headers in Windows Server and ASP.NET, after installing IIS using web.config files. This makes it a tiny bit harder...
Since I started expanding my Zabbix scripts and templates for monitoring Windows Server instances – AD, IIS and SQL Server – I found WMI was failing more and more. WMI...
WMI Architecture – relationship between wmi infrastructure, wmi providers, and managed objects...
Unzip a file on your PowerShell command-prompt may come in handy sometimes, even on your Windows 11 . Use Expand-Archive for this, and all that is required is PowerShell 5.0+,...
The fire-and-forget method to update SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) automatically. The script below starts with uninstalling any installed SSMS version. Once that is succeeded, it downloads & installs the...
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