Vista - Running WMI Query in without Powershell or VBS

Hi,

is it possible to call a windows API to get the wmi information? Some of the
computers in my company do not have PowerShell on them so we need to come up
with a better way. Also, can these queries be run in cmd.exe?

You don't need powershell to remotely query wmi
user the -computername parameter for get-wmiobject
PS> get-wmiobject Win32_Services -computername server1

You can also use wmic
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...n-us/wmic.mspx

"greatbarrier86" <greatbarrier86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:36F1E9D2-53BA-4D10-B1DB-C8F02F9DE779@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to call a windows API to get the wmi information? Some of
> the
> computers in my company do not have PowerShell on them so we need to come
> up
> with a better way. Also, can these queries be run in cmd.exe?

wmic might be what i need.

The thing is, we are going to be running these queries directly on the
machine that is being queried. Thus, i think using get-wmiobject wont work.

"Brandon Shell" wrote:

> You don't need powershell to remotely query wmi
> user the -computername parameter for get-wmiobject
> PS> get-wmiobject Win32_Services -computername server1
>
> You can also use wmic
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...n-us/wmic.mspx
>
> "greatbarrier86" <greatbarrier86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:36F1E9D2-53BA-4D10-B1DB-C8F02F9DE779@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it possible to call a windows API to get the wmi information? Some of
> > the
> > computers in my company do not have PowerShell on them so we need to come
> > up
> > with a better way. Also, can these queries be run in cmd.exe?
>
>

using wmic works, but it outputs more than i actually want. if i do the
following
%PC_Model% = Wmic path win32_computersystem get model
it returns a header and the pc model. Since i want to write the model to a
file, is there a way to just spit back the model and not the header?

"greatbarrier86" wrote:

> wmic might be what i need.
>
> The thing is, we are going to be running these queries directly on the
> machine that is being queried. Thus, i think using get-wmiobject wont work.
>
> "Brandon Shell" wrote:
>
> > You don't need powershell to remotely query wmi
> > user the -computername parameter for get-wmiobject
> > PS> get-wmiobject Win32_Services -computername server1
> >
> > You can also use wmic
> > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...n-us/wmic.mspx
> >
> > "greatbarrier86" <greatbarrier86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:36F1E9D2-53BA-4D10-B1DB-C8F02F9DE779@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is it possible to call a windows API to get the wmi information? Some of
> > > the
> > > computers in my company do not have PowerShell on them so we need to come
> > > up
> > > with a better way. Also, can these queries be run in cmd.exe?
> >
> >

You can run PowerShell based WMI queries against a remote machine.
PowerShell does not need to be on the remote machine
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"greatbarrier86" wrote:

> wmic might be what i need.
>
> The thing is, we are going to be running these queries directly on the
> machine that is being queried. Thus, i think using get-wmiobject wont work.
>
> "Brandon Shell" wrote:
>
> > You don't need powershell to remotely query wmi
> > user the -computername parameter for get-wmiobject
> > PS> get-wmiobject Win32_Services -computername server1
> >
> > You can also use wmic
> > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...n-us/wmic.mspx
> >
> > "greatbarrier86" <greatbarrier86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:36F1E9D2-53BA-4D10-B1DB-C8F02F9DE779@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is it possible to call a windows API to get the wmi information? Some of
> > > the
> > > computers in my company do not have PowerShell on them so we need to come
> > > up
> > > with a better way. Also, can these queries be run in cmd.exe?
> >
> >

Standard PowerShell cmdlets do not have built-in remote capability. Using the
Get-WmiObject is the exception and as long as the application has a WMI
provider, such as Exchange Server 2003, you can remotely access it from your
administrative workstation with PowerShell (target remote system does not
need to have Powershell or .NETFramework).

For an example and more, see http://www.leedesmond.com/weblog/?p=177.

HTH.

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"greatbarrier86" wrote:

> using wmic works, but it outputs more than i actually want. if i do the
> following
> %PC_Model% = Wmic path win32_computersystem get model
> it returns a header and the pc model. Since i want to write the model to a
> file, is there a way to just spit back the model and not the header?
>
> "greatbarrier86" wrote:
>
> > wmic might be what i need.
> >
> > The thing is, we are going to be running these queries directly on the
> > machine that is being queried. Thus, i think using get-wmiobject wont work.
> >
> > "Brandon Shell" wrote:
> >
> > > You don't need powershell to remotely query wmi
> > > user the -computername parameter for get-wmiobject
> > > PS> get-wmiobject Win32_Services -computername server1
> > >
> > > You can also use wmic
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...n-us/wmic.mspx
> > >
> > > "greatbarrier86" <greatbarrier86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:36F1E9D2-53BA-4D10-B1DB-C8F02F9DE779@microsoft.com...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > is it possible to call a windows API to get the wmi information? Some of
> > > > the
> > > > computers in my company do not have PowerShell on them so we need to come
> > > > up
> > > > with a better way. Also, can these queries be run in cmd.exe?
> > >
> > >