Alain Lissoir - Managing Windows with WMI | scobleizer

Alain and his team invited me over to talk about managing Windows with WMI. Windows Management Instrumentation. Sounds boring, right? But it makes Windows manageable. Ever want to do something on thousands of desktops? WMI lets you do it. Hope you enjoy meeting this team and learning about what they do as much as I did.

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j0217995

Sep 12, 2005 at 12:49 PM

Looking forward to download and view this later at home, but ir is not saving correctly. Just sitting there, trying in IE and FireFox is the download not up yet?
j0217995

Sep 12, 2005 at 1:02 PM

Hmm wierd, tried re-downloading this and it didn't work correctly, however can get it through wget on my *nix box, wierd
CRPietschmann Chris Pietschmann

Sep 12, 2005 at 2:06 PM

Does anyone know of a website that is dedicated to WMI Scripting?
wavesmash

Sep 12, 2005 at 2:19 PM

Search Microsoft Downloads for Scripts.

Scriptomatic 2.0 is all you really need.
Trev Scott

Sep 12, 2005 at 3:13 PM

Dont forget Alains site http://www.lissware.net/
Also the MSDN WMI scripting primer series is well worth a look!
n4cer

Sep 12, 2005 at 7:28 PM

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
Alain Lissoir

Sep 13, 2005 at 12:08 PM

You can find scripts at:
My web site: http://www.lissware.net
MS Script Center: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
The new WMI Code Generator:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2cc30a64-ea15-4661-8da4-55bbc145c30e&displaylang=en

The latter generates VBScript but also C# and VB.NET.

Hope this helps
/Alain
asqui

Apr 03, 2006 at 5:03 PM

Hmm, there seems to be a cut at 45:20. How dissapointing, I was looking forward to hearing more about Apple!

Since they were talking about backwards compatibility around that time I'll digress and talk about Raymond Chen's recent blog post, in which he was talking about backwards compatibility in Windows (yet again . In the comments that came in for that post someone said "NO wonder people are dumping windows for Macs", which was quite amusing -- gee, I wonder if lack of backwards compatibility could have something to do with Apple's poor market share, or the fact that software running on MacOS is, shall we say, scarce?

Needless to say that user was taken aside and given a talk about how things are "in the real world", for an operating system used by millions of people the world over.

Reymond also posted a new entry today talking about the importance of dealing with a situation effectively and working around mistakes from the past instead of sitting around wasting time pointing fingers, assining blame, and discussing how "we wouldn't be in this mess if...".

Some quotes:
"Well, if you had worn a life preserver, then you wouldn't be drowning. It's your own damn fault."
"As a lifeguard, you first rescue the drowning person, and then you lecture them for not wearing a life preserver."