Alain Lissoir - Managing Windows with WMI

Posted By: scobleizer | Sep 12th, 2005 @ 10:14 AM | 49,183 Views | 8 Comments
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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#Sep 12th, 2005 @ 12:49 PM
j0217995
j0217995
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?
#Sep 12th, 2005 @ 1:02 PM
j0217995
j0217995
Hmm wierd, tried re-downloading this and it didn't work correctly, however can get it through wget on my *nix box, wierd
#Sep 12th, 2005 @ 2:06 PM
CRPietschmann
CRPietschmann
Chris Pietschmann
Does anyone know of a website that is dedicated to WMI Scripting?
#Sep 12th, 2005 @ 2:19 PM
wavesmash
wavesmash
Search Microsoft Downloads for Scripts.

Scriptomatic 2.0 is all you really need.


#Sep 12th, 2005 @ 3:13 PM
Trev Scott
Trev Scott
Dont forget Alains site http://www.lissware.net/
Also the MSDN WMI scripting primer series is well worth a look!
#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 12:08 PM
Alain Lissoir
Alain Lissoir
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
#Apr 3rd, 2006 @ 5:03 PM
asqui
asqui
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 Smiley. 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."
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