Goverlan last week said it's giving away its version of its GUI-based Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) tool for remote desktop management and control. The company's WMI Explorer (WMIX) lets IT ...

WMI is a DCOM application; therefore, when you make calls to WMI in your script—whether they’ll run on a local or remote machine—DCOM comes into play. If your WMI script attempts to execute WMI ...

Over the last few months, we’ve been discussing a variety of security-related topics. We’ve placed a particular emphasis on using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to accomplish these tasks.

As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

You could wrap it up as a software install, or run it with something like a login script or psexec, but you could just change the SID on every machine, instead of ...

Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.