I wondered which filters you guys all use for your Group Policies? For example I have a piece of software where I need to deploy a different MSI for Windows XP than I do Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Goverlan last week said it's giving away its version of its GUI-based Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) tool for remote desktop management and control. The company's WMI Explorer (WMIX) lets IT ...

WMI Filtering lets you run queries against this data. A WMI filter is made up of one or more queries written in WMI Query Language (WQL) that’s evaluated against the target computer. If all the ...

In the last two parts of the series we saw how and why WMI exists. We even saw a small bit of code in WMI and how easy it was to write it using class abstractions provided by WMI. In this concluding ...

WMI is the acronym for Windows Management Instrumentation, a COM based Microsoft technology used to retrieve system related information. You can use this technology to retrieve the CPU ID, MAC ID, etc ...

Greetings all,<BR><BR>I've been writing a small program in VB.Net and a portion of the code runs a wmi query against a machine pulling a date out. The class is QuickFixEngineering.<BR><BR>It works ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

When a key service goes down on a server, you will usually hear about it from a user or another office such as the help desk when they begin receiving calls from users. It's also entirely possible ...