Accessing WMI Instances Directly

by Sep 3, 2010

If you know the path to a WMI instance, you can access it directly by converting the WMI path to a WMI object:

[wmi]'Win32_Service.Name="W32Time"'
[wmi]'Win32_Logicaldisk="C:"'

You can also specify the full WMI path, including a machine name to access WMI objects on remote systems (provided you have sufficient access rights):

[wmi]'\\SERVER5\root\cimv2:Win32_Service.Name="W32Time"'

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