Anil Dhawan - Partying with Bluetooth
Description
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.
Download
Download this episode
- MP3 (44.1 MB)
- Low Quality MP4 (262.6 MB)
- High Quality MP4 (575.5 MB)
- Mid Quality MP4 (402.7 MB)
- Mid Quality WMV
- WMV
More episodes in this series
Dr. Neil Roodyn - Fooling around in Scoble's office
Related episodes
Defrag Tools #120 - Windows Management Instrumentation
TWC9: Build 2014, Windows Phone 8 1080P, Roslyn, Rubber Ducks and more
Developing Solutions for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Using WMI
The DFO Show - Use Enterprise Library Management Extensions CTP to Group Policy and WMI…
The DFO Show - Building Manageable Apps
Oughtness, Isness and the world of systems management
Anders Vinberg: Oughtness, Isness and the world of sytsems management
The Discussion
-
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?
-
j0217995 Hmm wierd, tried re-downloading this and it didn't work correctly, however can get it through wget on my *nix box, wierd
-
CRPietschmann Does anyone know of a website that is dedicated to WMI Scripting? -
wavesmash -
Trev Scott Dont forget Alains site http://www.lissware.net/
Also the MSDN WMI scripting primer series is well worth a look! -
n4cer -
Alain Lissoir You can find scripts at:
My web site: http://www.lissware.net
MS Script Center: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
The new WMI Code Generator:
https://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 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."