CIM cmdlets

As mentioned in the previous section, the Common Information Model (CIM) cmdlets were introduced with PowerShell 3 and are the only commands available to access WMI in PowerShell 6 and above.

The CIM commands are as follows:

• Get-CimAssociatedInstance
• Get-CimClass
• Get-CimInstance
• Get-CimSession
• Invoke-CimMethod
• New-CimInstance
• New-CimSession
• New-CimSessionOption
• Register-CimIndicationEvent
• Remove-CimInstance
• Remove-CimSession
• Set-CimInstance

Each of these CIM cmdlets uses either the ComputerName or CimSession parameter to target the operation at another computer.

Getting instances

You can use the Get-CimInstance command to execute queries for instances of WMI objects, as the following code shows:

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem 
Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Service 
Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Share 

Several different parameters are available...