Appendix D. Useful links

These are the links that I’ve found useful during my investigations of PowerShell and WMI. I consulted many of them during the writing of this book.

D.1. WMI

WMI SDK

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394582.aspx

WQL

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394606(VS.85).aspx

WMI .NET CLASSES

System.Management.ManagementObject:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.managementobject.aspx

System.Management.ManagementClass:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.managementclass.aspx

System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.managementobjectsearcher.aspx

WINDOWS SCRIPTING GUIDE

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sas_ent_qpyo.mspx?mfr=true

WMIEXPLORER

http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2007/03/22/powershell-wmi-explorer-part-1.aspx

D.1.1. Forums for WMI questions

THIS BOOK’S FORUM

http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=719&start=0

MY FORUM

http://powershell.com/cs/forums/217.aspx

USING POWERSHELL AND WMI

http://powershell.com/cs/forums/78.aspx

D.2. Microsoft MSDN .NET

.NET FRAMEWORK

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w0x726c2.aspx

.NET FRAMEWORK CLASS LIBRARY

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229335.aspx

D.3. PowerShell blogs

This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list, but it represents a good cross section of the PowerShell community. These blogs will include links to many other areas of the PowerShell community.

RICHARD SIDDAWAY

D.4. Code sources

D.5. Podcasts

D.6. User groups