Using PowerShell to extract WMI values
Posted by The Admin Arsenal Team on Mon, Oct 12, 2009
If you aren't using Windows 7 and you haven't installed Windows PowerShell yet, then go here to download and install.
Here are a couple of useful PowerShell examples for common tasks:
- Example of Extracting the Total Physical Memory from WMI
- Use PowerShell to directly query WMI
The two examples above show how you can use the "-filter" cmdlet to narrow down the results. In this case we filtered out any device where the DeviceId wasn't "C:". The second example shows how you can pass a WMI query using the "-query" cmdlet. In this case we only returned disks that are registered as Fixed Disks ("DriveType = 3")
- You can also query remote computers
Using the "-ComputerName" cmdlet you can specify a remote system. This should work for any object under the "get-WmiObject" cmdlet.