Category: WMI

Group Policy WMI filters for Windows 7/8/8.1/10

Every now and then during Windows 10 deployments we need to use WMI filters for group policy objects, there are simply no better way of doing this, without a lot of work. WMI is simple to use and demands little maintenance. There WMI filters may also come handy since there are group policy settings that…

November 3, 2016
Using Group Policy WMI filters? Computers booting slow?

In general terms I never recommend to use WMI filters with Group Policy Object, and there are many reasons for this including When WMI database is corrupt the filter may deliver a inconsistent result ServiceDesk may not understand when a GPO should apply and not May slow down computer startups May slow down logon phases…

February 15, 2016
Applications per users and computers

I wrote a small PowerShell script to help me get some information about the installed applications quick and easy. We needed to know what applications is installed per user to perform the right actions in ConfigMgr. This script will for example help you with information like when the application is installed, if the application is…

June 9, 2015
Tool to diagnose and repair WMI problems

Microsoft updated the WMI Diagnosis Utility to version 2.2 and can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7684 Use this tool check the WMI repository and repair the database, some nice parameters that are good to have To create the LOG, TXT and CSV files in a location other than %TEMP%: WMIDiag.vbs LogFilePath=\\Server\Share To deploy the WMI…

April 28, 2015