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Posted on August 23, 2006 in Development by Ben Coleman25 Comments »

Here’s a little utility I wrote the other day for executing WMI queries. I didn’t like the clunky WMI tools that Microsoft provide (they require IE/ActiveX to use, yuk), so I wrote this in Visual Basic. Yeah I know VB is the spawn of evil, yadda, yadda, sure it is – but it’s a lot better than it used to be (try-catch blocks anyone?). I used the express edition of Visual Studio 2005 which is surprisingly usable, and the not the crippled mess I was expecting at all. Nice one MS, something both free and good, I thought only Google did that

Features

Remote and local connections
Specify user credientials for the WMI connection
Query builder to create simple WMI queries
Query results are show in a table

Download

WMI Tool Installer

Notes

I don’t have a full MS domain with machines to test this against, it should work (all the code is there!) so let me know if you have any problems when using it against remote hosts in a domain.

25 Responses to “WMI Query Tool”

on 13 Aug 2007 at 9:52 pm1carg

i will give this a try thanks…
on 01 Nov 2007 at 8:38 pm2Erik

Awesome utility, I’m using it to build a system inventory for our company. One thing I would add though, I can’t copy information from the fields, I have to export to file.
on 21 Dec 2007 at 9:56 am3Denys

Helpful stuff. Thanks for it. Actually that i want.
on 14 Aug 2008 at 10:34 am4Iain

Really useful app Ben.
Thanks for sharing it.
on 18 Aug 2008 at 4:40 pm5Mike

Thanks, this is quite helpful.
on 10 Mar 2009 at 7:02 pm6Florian

This program is helpful but it seems to query only right data in the CIMV2 namespace.
on 03 Apr 2009 at 5:09 pm7Kev

Awesome utility man.. finally a good way to test my WQL!
thanks
on 15 May 2009 at 1:41 am8bearer of bad tidings

you’ve been one-upped by microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2cc30a64-ea15-4661-8da4-55bbc145c30e&displaylang=en
on 26 May 2009 at 11:08 am9travesti

I used the express edition of Visual Studio 2005 which is surprisingly usable…
yes thank nice studio 2005
on 17 Jun 2009 at 12:21 pm10Anonymous

I think this is better than the Microsoft CodeBuilder. I think like a DBA so I want to see the results in a query analyzer-like window.

Great App.
on 08 Aug 2009 at 7:34 pm11travesticlub

Thank you man.
on 23 Aug 2009 at 3:25 am12travesti

turkan
on 23 Aug 2009 at 3:25 am13travesti

tulay
on 23 Aug 2009 at 3:25 am14travesti

tulaycik
on 05 Sep 2009 at 7:26 pm15TravestiClub

Thank you
on 19 Sep 2009 at 9:44 pm16prefabrik

it is wonderful! great job.
on 18 Nov 2009 at 6:48 pm17Sekar

Excellent utility . Thanks for your efforts . It saved me some time.
on 01 Dec 2009 at 6:02 am18travesti

thnks good job
on 05 Jan 2010 at 12:18 am19trv ajans

thank you admin
on 15 Jan 2010 at 4:25 pm20someone

Thanks!
You’re a life saver
on 29 Jan 2010 at 4:22 pm21Support for other Namespaces?

Hi Ben,

this served my well in the past for CIMv2 namespace.

Remotely On local machine
Query: works works
Class Viewer: works works

I’m trying with the MicrosoftIISv2 namespace and I get the follwing:

Remotely On local machine
Query: does not work does not work
Class Viewer: does not work works
on 22 Feb 2010 at 4:02 am22Gus

Big thanks! Works well.
on 27 Feb 2010 at 1:42 am23The Doktor

Outstanding! The best tool of it’s kind, hands down.
on 21 Apr 2010 at 11:24 pm24escort bayan

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