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 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
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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.
i will give this a try thanks…
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.
Helpful stuff. Thanks for it. Actually that i want.
Really useful app Ben.
Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks, this is quite helpful.