Join Don Jones for an in-depth discussion in this video Use Invoke-WmiMethod to complete tasks, part of PowerShell 3.0 for Administrators.
- Now you're not always going to have…a batch cmdlet that does what you need.…Many times though, you might find that…Windows Management Instrumentation can do it for you.…So, let's take event logs as an example.…Let me see if I can find, oh, you know what?…It happens to be right here on the screen.…NT Event Log File, that represents one of the built-in…logs, application, security and system.…And if I look at this Methods tab,…I can see that I do have a clear event log method.…
Now I don't know much about this,…it wants to take an archive file name…as its string so, let's look this up.…Win32, NT, Event Log File, that'll…get us to the documentation, and once we're on the…documentation page, let's go look for that clear event log.…Here we go, it says all it really wants is the…file name that I want to back it up to,…so that seems like it should be pretty easy.…
And I should get a zero back if things were successful.…Okay, well there's no cmdlet to do this…so let's see how WMI would let me do it.…Get WMI object, class, win32, NT event log file,…
Author
Don Jones
Released
3/10/2012Skill Level Intermediate
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