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Troubleshooting WMI With WMIDiag
If you have never worked with Microsoft PSS, PFE, QFE, MCS, RRE, or any other arm of their professional support staff you may not be aware of the tools that these army of men and women come equipped with to resolve issues. These are often home grown, field developed, custom tools that these same folks have written to help customers and the support staff at Microsoft quickly resolve issues and the WMIDiag...
WMI Stability Improvements Fix For Windows XP
Back in May Microsoft released the same type of fix for Windows 2003 and now it is ready for XP clients. SMS admins understand the pain of WMI corruption as well as anyone, and probably better than most. Getting permission denied errors when it has nothing to do with permissions, trying to diagnose client issues remotely when WMI is not reporting the correct or latest data, the painful memories return...
WMI Diagnostics Tool v2
On Friday there was a TechNet webcast on using WmiDiag version 2 for troubleshooting WMI issues. I wasn't able to attend so I can provide any details, here is the introduction on the TechNet site. "The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a pervasive component of Microsoft Windows that is often useful in critical situations. Many enterprise management applications rely on WMI, so it is important...
Getting Started in PowerShell
I have used VBScript quite a bit in the past and I am very familiar with it but this morning I was doing something in VBS and thought to myself I really need to start to learn PowerShell. So I did some information gathering and thought I would compile it and share my info. Below is a list of links including, downloads, books, guides, development tools, webcasts, blogs, and bookmarks. The PowerShell...
