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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...

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