Windows WMI Demystified: From Repositories to Namespaces
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- WMI (Windows Management Infrastructure) is a critical, standards-based component of the Windows Operating System. WMI repository, WMI providers, and WMI Infrastructure make up core components of WMI. We'll look at the architecture of WMI, database, and protocols used to communicate with WMI. We'll also look at the GUI and command-line interfaces.
PowerShell and VB-scripts are critical to allowing Admins access to data and information in WMI. We'll look at security settings and configuration, popular WMI explorer tools, and Enterprise applications that work with WMI. We'll demo features from WMIX version 9 from www.goverlan.com/.
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I'm only about ten minutes in and can already say this is by *far* the best WMI introduction you can currently find on RUclips. Thanks! This no doubt took a lot of time to make.
Glad it was helpful!
Agreed!
one of the best resources out there indeed
love this guys videos.. highly underrated channel
Thanks for the kind words1
By far, one of the best resource to understand WMI.
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A fantastic and concise presentation Mr. V. I have been looking for a easy WMI basics guide for a long time. Thank you very much.
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This is a top notch walkthrough! - Thank you for putting this together
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I'm in the early stages of evaluating monitoring software for a small isolated network. This video gave me a foundation of WMI and how I can move forward. Thank you,
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Finally, plenty of comprehensive information about WMI. Thank you, sir!
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Thank you for putting this together!
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So happy, I found this excellent WMI material.. Thanks!
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Very good information Lowell.
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Excellent. Thank you for the session Sir
Most welcome!
You are fantastic. Thanks for valuable details on wmi. I am working on my capstone project developing a monitoring tool. This helps
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Nice presentation, thanks Lowell
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Really very informative and easy walkthrough, thanks a lot!
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Great videos, presentation, content, thank you very much!!!
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You're a great teacher! Love from the Netherlands!
Bedankt voor de vriendelijke woorden en voor het steunen van het kanaal
Thanks for your great effort. Really very helpful information.
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very nicely explained. thank you
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WMI Amazingly explaining, the interaction between your explanation, video kinetic movement and the musics selected makes is a unique and enriching methodology for a highly professional. Thank you so much for sharing this authentic subject.
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Thank you for sharing and watching the channel!
This is one of the best walkthrough….!
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Our pleasure!
thank you so much🎉 this video really helps me a lot
You're so welcome!
Great information shared...Thanks
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Thanks for the video =)
Sure thing!
Great information.
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just --
excellent.
Thank you for watching!
Hey Lowell, thank you for this interesting video, as usual :)
WMI is a very important part of Windows but probably one of the less known. For exemple I often solve issues on servers or workstations by renaming the "repository" folder but to be honest I don't really know why and how this repository has became corrupted. By experience I know if this folder is more than 200 MB it is a good idea to try to rename it and see if the problem is solved or not (if not, just roll back).
Additional info: my favourite wmi command is "wmic pagefile list" that helps a lot to know if a computer is needing some more RAM or not.
I am not surprise at the corrupt repository, WMI is very complex at every level. Many of the tools are to fix the database. DCOM is also known for causing problems! Thanks for watching!
Wow you are very good. Thank you!
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@@TechsavvyProductions I have just tried software for WMI explorering that you have recommended In my work environment and when I switch to normal view it is crushing. I mean from friendly. Possibly because of Windows Defender. I switched to WMI explorer shared by my colleague. Also shared video with him as he asked :)
@@TechsavvyProductions We use WMI Explorer 2.0.0.2. Nice tool for me :)
Thanks !
No problem!
Lowell, do you think you will do any videos on Linux? If so, it would be great. Really liked the Layet 7 video. I always check your content. I'm just not involved with Windows currently. Thanks
Dave: great question, there are so many great videos on Linux on RUclips! I am struggling to decide what topics that are not already covered by 10-20 really good videos already. I would love to a have wish list of topics on Linux that you be interested in. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the video👍
I am really interested in WMI.
Please what does it mean namespace, I hear it a lot in in technologies like AD DS or programming languages, the word “namespace” in which sense does it mean
You are rightly to be confused due to so many technologies using the same word and many times with different meanings. A profound problem in IT! But addressing the issue in WMI here is a good article. powershell.one/wmi/root#:~:text=where%20it%20lives.-,WMI%20organizes%20its%20classes%20in%20a%20hierarchical%20namespace.,is%20always%20called%20%E2%80%9Croot%E2%80%9D.
great vid
Thanks for watching!
this shit is so complicated! but I'm pretty sure root/CIM2, WIBEM and these WMI namespaces are the most common cause of events, either informational/neutral or bad/critical, when looking through logs with the events manager! This was good content tho to help me begin to better understand what they are all about and confirm I basically was on the right track when trying to figure out what this stuff was all about on my own with the limited/screwy documentation available these days. I actually used wmic to run a power diagnostic test of some kind and create an .html report with the results that I found informational. Also was beginning to think there was some 3rd party apps that must be useful for looking at these object models and sure enough WMIX was recommended here so that's the next step I plan to take to further investigate this part of my OS! 👍🏽
Thanks for watching!
Do you think you could do a video on troubleshooting wmi? every wmi troubleshooting i see is everyone just rebuilding the whole repository and it magically fixes things, but i want to know what you can do before going to that extreme
Great idea for a video!
@@TechsavvyProductions if you do end up making it id be so happy, turned on notifications on your channel so i dont miss it if you do!
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hi, thank you for your great video I cant find wmix software that you explained about could you please share with us a direct link please
www.goverlan.com/knowledge/article/wmix-getting-started/
Which protocol wql uses?
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/wql-sql-for-wmi WMI queries use WMI Query Language (WQL), a subset of SQL.
Probably you should do a video interview/ podcast with Eli the Computer Guy, not sure if you ever heard about him.
Yes I have seen some of his videos. I have been thinking about doing interviews with my peers in the IT field. Not sure anyone would be interested?
@@TechsavvyProductions I think its worth trying. just so you know I am getting ready for a interview, the position its cloud support engineer for AWS, your study material its great, because what they want its pretty much a sys admin, currently I work at a AWS data center. Thanks for the videos again.