Note that you can also access and manipulate WMI objects using PowerShell. PowerShell helps administrators to access the richness and power of WMI in several ways:

• The Get-WMIObject cmdlet enables you to get any WMI object that is represented in the CIM. You can also use Get-WMIObject to list out the WMI classes present to aid in discovery.
• The [wmi], [wmiclass] and [wmisearcher] type accelerators that simplfy accessing WMI objects.
• Default formatting for core objects to aid in discovery.

Some of the WMI classes here have been decorated with samples using PowerShell.

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[tfl - 28 08 09] Hi - and thanks for your post. You should post questions like this to the MSDN Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn or the MSDN Newsgroups at

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