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WMI CIM-plified Part 2: PowerShell 3.0

PowerShell 3.0 brings us into the world of CIM which I think you'll find to be a much easier approach for systems management using WMI. On the surface the syntax hasn't really changed much. We have a ...
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Programmatically check for second display and mode (extended, cloned)

I think this is a borderline case of putting it in the Mojo forum, but I guess here's the people more familiar with WMI, Powershell and the like. My problem: I want to check on a computer whether it ...
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WMI CIM-plified Part 6: Tips and Tricks

Over the course of the last few lessons we've exploring the new world of the CIM cmdlets introduced in PowerShell 3.0. Over the course of the last few lessons we've exploring the new world of the CIM ...
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Block WMI Connections?

You should also consider disabling tcp access to RPC, or at least setting it to require authentication. WMI is deprecated, and modern remote management tools (e.g. Powershell) use RPC instead. Unless ...