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<\/p>\nAs 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 you have sufficient rights to access WMI remotely.<\/p>\n
Just click on the connect button the first time you connect to a remote machine.<\/p>\n
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Enter the remote machine\u2019s name and add your user id and password. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
Once you have connected successfully to a remote computer you can just select this machine from the dropdown underneath the \u201cConnect\u201d button. Since your credentials have been stored locally you don\u2019t need to enter your information again. If your login changes, e.g. because of required password change policies, just click on the connect button and enter the new information, WMI Explorer will find the previous entry and update it.<\/p>\n
You may notice that the information for remote computers loads really fast. Well, it even loads if you have no connection to that machine at all. That\u2019s because classes, methods and properties have been cached locally. Since most of the time this information doesn\u2019t change you should not need to update this. If you have installed new software, providers or even a new OS version on a remote machine or your local computer, you simply clear the cache for the currently selected machine.<\/p>\n Click on the file tab and select \u201cClear Cache\u201d. You can rebuild it right there or the next time you connect.<\/p>\n One question came up on the previous blog post: \u201cThe old version was just a single executable, the new one requires installation. How can we run this on a server without installation?\u201d<\/p>\n Because you can connect to remote machines, you shouldn\u2019t have to run this on your server, simply connect to it from your workstation. If for whatever reason this is not an option, you can just copy the files from the installation folder to a flash drive or network share. The installer really is just there to make your life easier and copy things in the right place. The installer also installs the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 runtime if you don\u2019t have that. Obviously you would need to have that on your server to run WMI Explorer 2014 there. This runtime is a prerequisite for a lot of software, so chances are you already have it.<\/p>\n Next time we talk about filtering and searching, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n Below are the links to download this time limited community preview. This version will expire December 31st 2013.<\/p>\n 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[485,21,833],"tags":[760,36,35,1020],"class_list":["post-6437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-tools","category-software-news","category-wmi-explorer","tag-cache","tag-remote","tag-wmi","tag-wmi-explorer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"image\"](\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/image1.png\" "\\"image\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0Download the 64 bit version of WMI Explorer 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0Download the 32 bit version of WMI Explorer 2014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"