There are three different ways to find, filter and search in order to accommodate everyone’s individual style of finding what they are looking for. This is one of the items in this new version I spent the most time on: Finding things. So you can help your junior admins back at the office while you sip your latte at the airport.

Even better, everything but the actual data is cached, so after the initial connect you can browse and search a server’s WMI classes and properties without having an actual network connection. The new one takes your credentials and stores them. The original could only use your local machine. It’s C++, caching information, multi-threading and just plain blazing fast. Here is a list of the shortcomings of the original WMI Explorer I attempted to fix: I took some of the newer code that already exists in PrimalScript’s Object Browser and WMI Query window and built a new user interface around it. Lucky for me, the guy has endless patience and a passion for this kind of stuff, so he kept answering my endless stream of inquiries. So I set out to build a better mousetrap and started needling Jason with questions about what was good, what was bad, what was missing and so forth. I was actually a bit embarrassed that something I just hobbled together was in such widespread use. During the course of our conversation he brought up the WMI Explorer and how he encourages students to use it and find out about WMI classes and their properties. I had a conversation with Jason Helmick about what tools administrators use and need. So it is admittedly a bit of a Frankenstein, but nonetheless it seems to have helped many administrators to do the same thing I needed it for: Discover WMI.įast forward to 2013. I originally put the WMI Explorer together in 2005 from code I found online and had laying around to better understand WMI and how to query the huge database behind it. Amazingly enough this was never a tool that was intended to be released to the public. It is in fact one of our most popular free tools from our collection of community tools. Please go here for more details.įor many years now administrators have used SAPIEN’s WMI Explorer to get a handle on WMI classes and their properties and methods. WMI Explorer 2014 is now officially released as of April 17th 2014.

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