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.

This week, I want to briefly cover some often-confusing parts about Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) security. Keep in mind that when you connect to WMI on a remote computer, you’re really ...

Not all applications are created with remote execution in mind. PowerShell provides several ways to invoke applications on remote computers.

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 ...

A lot of users face issues with SSCM Client and other applications such as Battle.Net and when they check winmgmt.msc, they see the following error message. Failed to ...

Can't figure this one out. <BR><BR>I'm a member of the Domain Admins group in a Windows 2000 Mixed Mode domain. No NT servers anywhere though.<BR><BR>My desktop is running Windows XP Sp2. I go to ...

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 ...