From the course: PowerShell: Scripting for Server Administration
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WMI basics - Server Tutorial
From the course: PowerShell: Scripting for Server Administration
WMI basics
- [Instructor] One of the most meaningful additions to the first revision of PowerShell was remoting, or the ability to manage a remote server using PowerShell. Sometimes, this includes initiating a remote PowerShell session, where you type the cmdlets at your workstation but they're actually being run on another machine. In other instances, you're running cmdlets on your workstation that access, and even change settings and object properties on the remote system. Windows Management Instrumentation or WMI is how Microsoft implemented a standard of how this should be done. WMI information is stored on every Windows workstation and server since Windows 2000 and can be accessed with PowerShell cmdlets. Before we take a look at those cmdlets, let me show you a little bit of what you can expect to find and how it's organized. WMI is broken down by namespaces. A namespace usually represents a piece of software, like SQL Server or a service like DNS, or Windows, itself. Namespaces are…
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