I just read this very interesting article “Why Win32_Product is Bad News!” and if you’re a Desktop Systems Administrator I strongly recommend to the read that article as well. To simulate what Darren is writing about, simply open an elevated command prompt (on a Test system) and type WMIC, once WMIC has started type Product [...]
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ToolTip: Windows Services Dependency Viewer
During my periodic visit on CodePlex I came across the Windows Services Dependency Viewer utility. The tool provides access to the following information: Windows service dependent and antecedent services Services grouped by process Service details (from Win32_Service WMI class) Service process details (from Win32_Process WMI class This tool might come in handy once you start [...]
3 seconds to get system serial number
Okay, depends on how fast you can type. Start a command prompt and enter the following command: wmic csproduct get identifyingnumber,vendor,name In simple words, wmic is a WMI commandline tool. It’s around since XP if i am right, but there hasn’t been much documentation for it: Some references here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394531.aspx
