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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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Standards Based Identity and Role Management using PowerShell
A year ago I published an article and PowerShell module to simplify managing Standards-Based devices (specifically CIM and WS-Man). The use cases focused around setting the boot order, changing power...
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Physical Computer System View Profile
Out-of-band management is a critical tool within a datacenter (also useful to small/medium businesses). Essentially, it enables one to remotely manage a computer system independent of the operating...
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Implementing MI Provider (4) - Generate Code (continute)
As described in Implementing MI Provider (3), Convert-MofToProvider.exe tool generates a set of code files, including schema.c, module.c, WMIAdapter.c, Provider.DEF, <class name>.h, and <class...
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Implementing MI Provider (5) - Implement
As discussed in Implementing MI Provider (4) - Generate Code (continute), Convert-MofToProvider.exe tool generates <class name>.c file for each target class, which contains stub functions to...
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Implementing MI Provider (6) - Build, Register, and Debug
This blog discusses how to build, register and debug MI provider.BuildTo build MI provider, open visual studio 2012, create an empty Visual C++ project named “process”, set type to DLL, and add all...
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Performing Management tasks using Cimcmdlets - Processes
WMI provides a standardized system management infrastructure that can be leveraged by a number of different clients. WMI providers and the classes exposed by the providers help in various management...
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Performing Management tasks using Cimcmdlets [2] – Computer Hardware
As part of this blog series we are sharing PowerShell snippets for a few Computer Management tasks. In this post we will be going over the samples for Computer Hardware management. The Visual Basic...
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Performing Management tasks using Cimcmdlets [3] – Operating System
As a part of the ongoing blog series “Performing Management tasks using Cimcmdlets” we are sharing PowerShell snippets for a few Computer Management tasks. In this post we will be going over the PS...
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Performing management tasks using CIM Cmdlets [4] – Files and Folders
As a part of the ongoing blog seriesPerforming Management tasks using CIM Cmdlets we are sharing PowerShell snippets for a few computer management tasks.In this post, we will be going over the...
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Enumerating and getting WMI provider class instances with performance in mind
Performance of CIM_DataFile and Win32_Directory enumeration depends on the number of files or directories that are being enumerated, and, hence, can be very slow and can take hours.In following...
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WS-Man (Web Services for Management) 1.2 Published
The DMTF recently published the Web Services for Management (WS-Man) standard version 1.2. This release of the WS-Man specification clarifies support for the latest encryption protocols, which has been...
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Move to PowerShell for WinRM Management
As most people are aware, PowerShell provides two ways of managing the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) infrastructure: the WSMan Provider and the WS-Management Cmdlets. (As you are no doubt aware,...
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Implementing MI Provider (4) – Generate Code (continute)
As described in Implementing MI Provider (3), Convert-MofToProvider.exe tool generates a set of code files, including schema.c, module.c, WMIAdapter.c, Provider.DEF, <class name>.h, and <class...
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Implementing MI Provider (5) – Implement
As discussed in Implementing MI Provider (4) – Generate Code (continute), Convert-MofToProvider.exe tool generates <class name>.c file for each target class, which contains stub functions to...
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Implementing MI Provider (6) – Build, Register, and Debug
This blog discusses how to build, register and debug MI provider. Build To build MI provider, open visual studio 2012, create an empty Visual C++ project named “process”, set type to DLL, and add all...
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WMI provides a standardized system management infrastructure that can be leveraged by a number of different clients. WMI providers and the classes exposed by the providers help in various management...
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