WMI Commands on Windows 10

It's always cool to work with a command prompt, batch file, etc. I still love to do a lot of work with command prompts and automate things with batch files. In this article, I will list you WMI Commands (Windows Management Instrumentation) that would be helpful to run a query within Windows 10/8/7 for various purposes.

Windows Management Instrumentation Command line or WMIC

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the infrastructure for management data and operations on Windows-based operating systems. You can write WMI scripts or applications to automate administrative tasks on remote computers, but WMI also supplies management data to other parts of the operating system and products, for example, System Center Operations Manager.

The following global switches are available:

/NAMESPACE           Path for the namespace the alias operate against.

/ROLE                Path for the role containing the alias definitions.

/NODE                Servers the alias will operate against.

/IMPLEVEL            Client impersonation level.

/AUTHLEVEL           Client authentication level.

/LOCALE              Language id the client should use.

/PRIVILEGES          Enable or disable all privileges.

/TRACE               Outputs debugging information to stderr.

/RECORD              Logs all input commands and output.

/INTERACTIVE         Sets or resets the interactive mode.

/FAILFAST            Sets or resets the FailFast mode.

/USER                User to be used during the session.

/PASSWORD            Password to be used for session login.

/OUTPUT              Specifies the mode for output redirection.

/APPEND              Specifies the mode for output redirection.

/AGGREGATE           Sets or resets aggregate mode.

/AUTHORITY           Specifies the  for the connection.

/?[:]    Usage information.

For more information on a specific global switch, type: switch-name /?

The following alias/es are available in the current role:

ALIAS                    - Access to the aliases available on the local system

BASEBOARD                - Base board (also known as a motherboard or system board) management.

BIOS                     - Basic input/output services (BIOS) management.

BOOTCONFIG               - Boot configuration management.

CDROM                    - CD-ROM management.

COMPUTERSYSTEM           - Computer system management.

CPU                      - CPU management.

CSPRODUCT                - Computer system product information from SMBIOS.

DATAFILE                 - DataFile Management.

DCOMAPP                  - DCOM Application management.

DESKTOP                  - User's Desktop management.

DESKTOPMONITOR           - Desktop Monitor management.

DEVICEMEMORYADDRESS      - Device memory addresses management.

DISKDRIVE                - Physical disk drive management.

DISKQUOTA                - Disk space usage for NTFS volumes.

DMACHANNEL               - Direct memory access (DMA) channel management.

ENVIRONMENT              - System environment settings management.

FSDIR                    - Filesystem directory entry management.

GROUP                    - Group account management.

IDECONTROLLER            - IDE Controller management.

IRQ                      - Interrupt request line (IRQ) management.

JOB                      - Provides  access to the jobs scheduled using the schedule service

LOADORDER                - Management of system services that define execution dependencies.

LOGICALDISK              - Local storage device management.

LOGON                    - LOGON Sessions.

MEMCACHE                 - Cache memory management.

MEMORYCHIP               - Memory chip information.

MEMPHYSICAL              - Computer system's physical memory management.

NETCLIENT                - Network Client management.

NETLOGIN                 - Network login information (of a particular user) management.

NETPROTOCOL              - Protocols (and their network characteristics) management.

NETUSE                   - Active network connection management.

NIC                      - Network Interface Controller (NIC) management.

NICCONFIG                - Network adapter management.

NTDOMAIN                 - NT Domain management.

NTEVENT                  - Entries in the NT Event Log.

NTEVENTLOG               - NT eventlog file management.

ONBOARDDEVICE            - Management of common adapter devices built into the motherboard (system board).

OS                       - Installed Operating System/s management.

PAGEFILE                 - Virtual memory file swapping management.

PAGEFILESET              - Page file settings management.

PARTITION                - Management of partitioned areas of a physical disk.

PORT                     - I/O port management.

PORTCONNECTOR            - Physical connection ports management.

PRINTER                  - Printer device management.

PRINTERCONFIG            - Printer device configuration management.

PRINTJOB                 - Print job management.

PROCESS                  - Process management.

PRODUCT                  - Installation package task management.

QFE                      - Quick Fix Engineering.

QUOTASETTING             - Setting information for disk quotas on a volume.

RDACCOUNT                - Remote Desktop connection permission management.

RDNIC                    - Remote Desktop connection management on a specific network adapter.

RDPERMISSIONS            - Permissions to a specific Remote Desktop connection.

RDTOGGLE                 - Turning Remote Desktop listener on or off remotely.

RECOVEROS                - Information that will be gathered from memory when the operating system fails.

REGISTRY                 - Computer system registry management.

SCSICONTROLLER           - SCSI Controller management.

SERVER                   - Server information management.

SERVICE                  - Service application management.

SHADOWCOPY               - Shadow copy management.

SHADOWSTORAGE            - Shadow copy storage area management.

SHARE                    - Shared resource management.

SOFTWAREELEMENT          - Management of the  elements of a software product installed on a system.

SOFTWAREFEATURE          - Management of software product subsets of SoftwareElement.

SOUNDDEV                 - Sound Device management.

STARTUP                  - Management of commands that run automatically when users log onto the computer system.

SYSACCOUNT               - System account management.

SYSDRIVER                - Management of the system driver for a base service.

SYSTEMENCLOSURE          - Physical system enclosure management.

SYSTEMSLOT               - Management of physical connection points including ports,  slots and peripherals, and proprietary connections points.

TAPEDRIVE                - Tape drive management.

TEMPERATURE              - Data management of a temperature sensor (electronic thermometer).

TIMEZONE                 - Time zone data management.

UPS                      - Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) management.

USERACCOUNT              - User account management.

VOLTAGE                  - Voltage sensor (electronic voltmeter) data management.

VOLUME                   - Local storage volume management.

VOLUMEQUOTASETTING       - Associates the disk quota setting with a specific disk volume.

VOLUMEUSERQUOTA          - Per user storage volume quota management.

WMISET                   - WMI service operational parameters management.

For more information on a specific alias, type: alias /?

CLASS     - Escapes to full WMI schema. PATH      - Escapes to full WMI object paths. CONTEXT   - Displays the state of all the global switches. QUIT/EXIT - Exits the program.

Here is an example:

QFE command is something I often use to find out the list of hotfixes or security updates applied to the system.

Usage:

Open the command prompt and type in wmic qfe. This will give you the list!

Output:

Caption                                        CSName      Description      HotFixID   InstalledBy                   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161784  CAPTAINDBG  Update          KB971033   NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2079403     CAPTAINDBG  Security Update KB2079403  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2207566     CAPTAINDBG  Security Update KB2207566  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2281679     CAPTAINDBG  Security Update KB2281679  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2286198     CAPTAINDBG  Security Update KB2286198  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2296011     CAPTAINDBG  Security Update KB2296011  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

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