Microsoft has announced that the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool will be removed after upgrading ...

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.

It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is useful to businesses for a number of system administration tasks on Windows machines, including copying files. The operation for file manipulation only ...

Windows comes with a tool called the Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI, that can be used by system administrators to receive information and notifications from Windows. Using WMI, an ...

Symantec's flagship consumer antivirus application contains a vulnerability that can allow certain malicious scripts to pass through without being scanned, according to a security researcher. Dan ...

If you’ve followed commonly accepted security policies and procedures, but ignore them and don’t create and utilize WMI scripts using a security model, you leave your system vulnerable to attacks and ...

The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool will no longer be available after Windows 11 25H2 and later, ...

If you’ve followed commonly accepted security policies and procedures, but ignore them and don’t create and utilize WMI scripts using a security model, you leave your system vulnerable to attacks and ...

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 ...