Ravikanth CNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In WMI, a namespace is a collection of classes. There are many WMI namespaces on a system and each namespace might contain more namespaces.
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Shay LevyNote: This tip requires admin privileges (elevated shell) To get Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) data we usually RSOP.mmc or the gpresult command line tool.
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Ravikanth CNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. If you are familiar with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), there are different types of WMI queries possible.
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Shay LevyWhen we need to resolve addresses, we usually use the System.Net.Dns .NET class methods. In addition to the .NET method, we can also use WMI class–Win32_PingStatus–to achieve this.
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Ravikanth CNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When running long running scripts, we prefer to log the activities performed to a log file.
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Shay LevyThe other day I was asked to check the local date and time on some workstations in our network. The reason for that was time skew, and as I was told, some workstations’ clock was 1 hour behind.
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