WMI Cheatsheet?

Question

Is there a cheatsheet available for WMI? Like what can be queried, where to query it from?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483501/where-can-i-find-the-wmi-documentation — Helen, Jul 14 '09 at 06:37

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 13 '16 at 17:09

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There's a ton of information available to query. I think that the best way is just to enumerate everything and have a look.

Try Microsoft's WMI Code Creator application. It helps you build queries in a few languages, so is sort of an interactive cheatsheet.

I also remember finding the "wbemtest" application useful.

I think it's included with Windows, so try Start > Run > wbemtest.

edited Mar 13 '16 at 17:09

Ilmari Karonen

answered Jul 13 '09 at 22:55

xyz

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 10 '17 at 13:05

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I have found WMI Explorer very helpful in finding classes and methods-- it's a lot more elegant than WEBMtest

edited Feb 10 '17 at 13:05

Wolf

answered Nov 11 '12 at 17:21

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 14 '09 at 09:28

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You can use WMI Browser in the WMI administrative tools. You can search for the classes, query the classes etc.

answered Jul 14 '09 at 09:28

Rajasankar

the broken link ("We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found."), makes this answer little useful. – Wolf Feb 10 '17 at 13:05

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