Get-WmiObject - Powershell 2.0 CmdLet
Microsoft Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting tool based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is designed for system administrators, engineers and developers to control and automate the administration of Windows and applications.
More than hundred command-line tools (so called "cmdlets") can be used to perform system administration tasks and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). These cmdlets are easy to use, with standard naming conventions and common parameters, and standard tools for piping, sorting, filtering, and formatting data and objects.
Get-WmiObject
Short description
Gets instances of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes or information about the available classes.
Syntax
Get-WmiObject [-Authority <string>] [-Amended] [-AsJob] [-Authentication {Default | None | Connect | Call | Packet
| PacketIntegrity | PacketPrivacy | Unchanged}] [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-EnableAll
Privileges] [-Impersonation {Default | Anonymous | Identify | Impersonate | Delegate}] [-Locale <string>] [-Namespa
ce <string>] [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-WmiObject [[-Class] <string>] [-Authority <string>] [-List] [-Recurse] [-Amended] [-AsJob] [-Authentication {De
fault | None | Connect | Call | Packet | PacketIntegrity | PacketPrivacy | Unchanged}] [-ComputerName <string[]>] [
-Credential <PSCredential>] [-EnableAllPrivileges] [-Impersonation {Default | Anonymous | Identify | Impersonate |
Delegate}] [-Locale <string>] [-Namespace <string>] [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-WmiObject [-Authority <string>] [-Amended] [-AsJob] [-Authentication {Default | None | Connect | Call | Packet
| PacketIntegrity | PacketPrivacy | Unchanged}] [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-EnableAll
Privileges] [-Impersonation {Default | Anonymous | Identify | Impersonate | Delegate}] [-Locale <string>] [-Namespa
ce <string>] [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-WmiObject [-Class] <string> [[-Property] <string[]>] [-Authority <string>] [-DirectRead] [-Filter <string>] [-A
mended] [-AsJob] [-Authentication {Default | None | Connect | Call | Packet | PacketIntegrity | PacketPrivacy | Unc
hanged}] [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-EnableAllPrivileges] [-Impersonation {Default |
Anonymous | Identify | Impersonate | Delegate}] [-Locale <string>] [-Namespace <string>] [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [<C
ommonParameters>]
Get-WmiObject -Query <string> [-Authority <string>] [-DirectRead] [-Amended] [-AsJob] [-Authentication {Default | N
one | Connect | Call | Packet | PacketIntegrity | PacketPrivacy | Unchanged}] [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-Credenti
al <PSCredential>] [-EnableAllPrivileges] [-Impersonation {Default | Anonymous | Identify | Impersonate | Delegate}
] [-Locale <string>] [-Namespace <string>] [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [<CommonParameters>]
Description
The Get-WmiObject cmdlet gets instances of WMI classes or information about the available WMI classes. The Computer
Name parameter can always be used to specify a remote computer. If the List parameter is specified, the cmdlet get
s information about the WMI classes that are available in a specified namespace. If the Query parameter is specifie
d, the cmdlet runs a WMI query language (WQL) statement.
The Get-WmiObject cmdlet does not use the Windows PowerShell remoting infrastructure to perform remote operations.
You can use the ComputerName parameter of the Get-WmiObject cmdlet even if your computer does not meet the requirem
ents for Windows PowerShell remoting and even if your computer is not configured for remoting in Windows PowerShell
.