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Powershell Remoting fails with 502 error from server
502 usually results from an intermediate gateway/proxy unable to understand server’s response. If however, you don't expect a gateway or proxy to sit between your client and server, this error may...
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Collecting WinRM Traces
This blog entry explains how to collect WinRM ETW and WPP traces:WinRM ETW Traces:You can use EventViewer to look at WinRM ETW events: · They are under Application and Services Logs à Microsoft...
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Out-of-band Hardware Management using WS-Management and Powershell
This will be the first in a series of posts about out-of-band management. First, "out-of-band" basically means outside of the Operating System. Specifically, a client is managing hardware...
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What is the DMTF?
As you may know, WinRM and WMI are implementations of public standards -- WMI is our implementation of CIM, and WinRM is our implementation of the WS-Management protocol. These are both published by...
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Configuring BITS Upload Server with PowerShell and ADSI
A common request that I get from customers is that they would like to use PowerShell to configure the BITS Upload Server extension on IIS. In the past, automating upload server configuration required...
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Scripts to make your life easier
I found a blog which has a few helpful VBScripts to perform some common tasks. http://blogs.msdn.com/alejacma/archive/tags/WMI/default.aspxHope this helps.Aditya Patwardhan [MSFT]
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Why do I get ACCESS DENIED when running commands on a remote PS runspace?
This blog entry describes the reasons behind getting "Access Denied" on certain commands run on remote PS runspaces and ways to work around them. The category of commands include ones that authenticate...
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Configurig WSMan Limits
Here is an article that shows how to use Powershell to easily configure WSMan Limits.http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2010/05/03/configuring-wsman-limits.aspxHope this helps.Aditya Patwardhan...
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Configure SCCM to use BITS + BranchCache
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) leverages BITS and BranchCache to download patches from a local distribution point and conserve WAN usage. Check out this blog post that provides an overview...
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WinRM 2.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 on Windows Update
Today, we released Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for pre-Windows 7 operating systems on Windows Update. This non-security, optional update is designed for Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista...
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Enabling BITS logging
Here's an oldie but a goodie. Heath Stewart provides example scripts on how to enable and disable ETW logging for the BITS service.See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2008/07/07/bits-logging.aspx
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Using WS-Man to invoke a Powershell Cmdlet
First, let me apologize for the lack of posts to this blog. Out original team goal was to have a new post every month, but holidays/vacations/work got in the way. I’ll try to restart this rhythm....
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BITS – More Flexible Bandwidth Limit Policies
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) has introduced a more granular control over the BITS bandwidth usage for background jobs, with a new set of group policies. Bandwidth limits can now be...
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Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #1...
Copying blog post from PowerShell blog Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP1 makes some updated management functionality available to be installed on Windows 7 SP1 & Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1....
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Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #2...
<Copied from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/12/02/windows-management-framework-3-0-community-technology-preview-ctp-2-available-for-download.aspx>I’m pleased to announce that the...
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Announcing Windows Server “8” Beta
Beta release of Windows Server “8" is now available for download..<drum beats and celebrations>We are excited as WMI , WinRM and SMIS are at the heart of management capabilities highlighted by...
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In-Band Management of IPMI with PowerShell
IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a specification defined by Intel and adopted by a number of companies for standardizing hardware management, particularly in server systems. IPMI...
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Introducing - Standards Based Management in Windows Server "8"
We are excited to introduce the investments we have made in Windows Server “8” through this excellent blog post Standards based management in Windows Server 8 by Jeffrey Snover and Wojtek...
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Announcing OMI - Open Management Infrastructure.
We are pleased to announce availability of a highly portable, small footprint, high performance CIM Object Manager called OMI (Open Management Infrastructure).See the annoucement on Windows Server blog...
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Standards Based Management: DMTF Management Profiles
The investments we’ve made in Windows Server 2012 (and WMF3.0) for standards based management is built around WS-Man as the remoting protocol (HTTP is the transport) and CIM as the model. By...
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