Saturday WMI Link Roundup
DaleMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 - How to Set WMI Namespace Security This article describes how to set Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) namespace security in Windows Server 2003. WMI security is…
Group Policy and WMI Filters–Round 2
This is more of a link dump than anything else. I was asked what I thought of a WMI-related Group Policy change.I don’t much care for them.So I know that…
The Microsoft “Ask the Performance Team” write about WMI
And I am going to include the links here, because a) they are useful and b) they compliment some of the posts I’ve written about WMI (Group Policy and WMI…
Group Policy and WMI filtering slowness.
Having spent time investigating slow network logons, I dislike using WMI for Group Policy filtering. It just adds a layer of slowness to logons. WMI filtering does has it’s place,…
WMI and WMIC example text for common queries
This is straight from the Microsoft Technet July 2005 CD set. I’ve not seen it elsewhere, and since I’ve found it so useful, I’m going to repost it here. WMIC…
The WMI fix – which is better?
Back in April, I wrote two posts about fixing a broken WMI. There was some thought that deleting the WMI Repository WAS A BAD THING. Well maybe not… Across 600+…
WMI has stopped working on some remote computers.
And I don’t know why. My strong guess is that it is related to one of the 10+ recent Microsoft security patches I’ve deployed to the fleet. (I’m looking at…