Posts Tagged ‘wmi’
These are my conference demos from WinConnections Orlando 2008. My sessions were all on PowerShell: Managing Active Directory with PowerShell Managing Servers and Desktops with PowerShell and WMI Powershell and Windows Server 2008 Read the examples thoroughly and test in a non-production environment. If you have questions, please post in…   More »
Alternate Credentials - ADSI and WMI
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
Here's an example of using alternate credentials to connect to either WMI or ADSI. Note that WMI doesn't allow alternate credentials if you're connecting to the LOCAL computer - only for remote connections. Both of these examples use a function. GetPassword, which I've included. This prompts you for a password…   More »
Targeting a list of names
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
This script assumes you have a text file listing one name per line - could be a computer name or a user name. In the example, which uses WMI, it's a computer name, and the script performs the same operation against each name. There are actually simpler ways, or at…   More »
WMI and alternate credentials
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
Here's an example of using PowerShell to connect to WMI on a remote computer using alternate credentials. Keep in mind that WMI itself doesn't permit alternate credentials for local connections. # # ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials # copyright 2006 SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. # # Using alternate credentials with WMI # #…   More »










