Holy crap! How did I miss this?!?
PowerShell Scriptomatic is a utility that makes it easy to create WMI scripts using Windows PowerShell. It was apparently (quietly) released last month and is incredibly useful in producing script code for what would otherwise be the laborious task of figuring out and hooking into WMI.
Look – this is how it works. First, Powershell Scriptomatic conveniently gives you a listing of available WMI namespaces (aspects of your Windows environment) that you can access. You select the WMI Namespace you want to access using the drop down box.
Then the next drop down list box is automatically populated with ‘classes’ from the particular namespace that you selected, making is easy for you to know what you have access to in that namespace. You select the WMI Class (memory, CDROM drive, battery, etc) from that particular namespace:
And WALLA! Instantly, Scriptomatic produces script code that allows you to access that part of WMI. You didn’t have to look anything up, and you didn’t have to type anything in to generate that code. It’s properly formatted and there aren’t any errors from your crappy typing.
Good stuff!
OVERVIEW:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/psomatic.mspx
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