One of my first tasks, after I was hired at SAPIEN, was to figure out why users couldn’t view WMI classes on remote computers and turn the solution into an easy-to-follow blog post. After completing that, I had to turn it into a script so that it was even easier to set up. Although I […]
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WMI Explorer 2016 released
WMI Explorer 2016 was released as part of the regular update cycle for our subscribers. We added some improvements behind the scenes: – improved security blanket handling allows remote browsing for more machines on your network.– detect and handle classes with descriptions that have linefeed only line ending.– general performance enhancements. The most obvious change […]
Enable WMI Explorer Windows 8 Remote Connection Permissions
Earlier in October, I posted a blog about remote connection failures that occur when using WMI Explorer on a remote computer running Windows 8. This solution doesn’t apply to computers running other versions of Windows. To sum it up, you need to make three changes for WMI Explorer to connect to a Windows 8 remote […]
WMI Explorer Windows 8 Remote Connection Issues
Connecting WMI Explorer to a remote Windows 8 computer is not an easy task. Due to the various firewall and permission settings that Windows 8 has, there are a few things that need to be modified in order to connect properly. Please note that this article only addresses Windows 8 and 8.1 but not Windows […]
WMI Explorer 2015 gets a PowerShell console
With the latest service build WMI Explorer 2015 has received an integrated Windows PowerShell console. While previous versions had the ability to execute generated PowerShell code in a console, experimentation with that code was not possible because PowerShell does not include the commands passed as arguments to the console in the history. With this new […]
WMI Explorer 2014 released!
The latest version of the WMI Explorer is available now on our website. Here are just a few highlights from the features in this release: Superior performance using cached data and multi-threaded code gets you results fast Explore and query local and remote machines. A large variety of search options enables you to access the […]
WMI Explorer 2014: Running Queries
WMI has a large amount of namespaces, classes and properties. While the WMI Explorer allows you to browse, search and filter all these items, it also enables you to query the underlying data for all of this. What you see above here is a standard query for the selected class. It is the same as […]
WMI Explorer 2014: Find, Search and Filter
When I originally designed the new version of the WMI Explorer I only wanted to add Find functionality. You know, like you do in any text editor. Type in an expression, it jumps to the first occurrence and the you hit Next, Next, Next until you get where you want to be. You can still […]
WMI Explorer 2014: Connect to remote computers.
As promised here are some more details on the new version of the WMI Explorer. One of the main flaws of the old versions was that it only worked on the current machine. With the 2014 version you can connect to any other computer in your network. Of course you will have to make sure […]
Introducing the WMI Explorer 2014
WMI Explorer 2014 is now officially released as of April 17th 2014. Please go here for more details. For many years now administrators have used SAPIEN’s WMI Explorer to get a handle on WMI classes and their properties and methods. It is in fact one of our most popular free tools from our collection […]
