{"id":2652,"date":"2013-10-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/27\/powertip-use-cim-cmdlets-to-find-wmi-classes\/"},"modified":"2013-10-27T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-cim-cmdlets-to-find-wmi-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-cim-cmdlets-to-find-wmi-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use CIM Cmdlets to Find WMI Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use the CIM cmdlets in Windows PowerShell to find associated WMI classes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I find the associated classes for a WMI object?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Use the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 CIM cmdlets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">First get the WMI object for which you want find the associated classes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">$group = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Group&nbsp; -Filter &#8220;Name = &#8216;Administrators'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Then find the associated classes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-CimAssociatedInstance -InputObject $group | select CimClass &ndash;Unique<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Then choose and use the class you need:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-CimAssociatedInstance -InputObject $group -ResultClassName Win32_UserAccount<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the CIM cmdlets in Windows PowerShell to find associated WMI classes. &nbsp;How can I find the associated classes for a WMI object? &nbsp;Use the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 CIM cmdlets. First get the WMI object for which you want find the associated classes: $group = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Group&nbsp; -Filter &#8220;Name = &#8216;Administrators&#8217;&#8221; Then find the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,189,4,45,6],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-richard-siddaway","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell","tag-wmi"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use the CIM cmdlets in Windows PowerShell to find associated WMI classes. &nbsp;How can I find the associated classes for a WMI object? &nbsp;Use the Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 CIM cmdlets. First get the WMI object for which you want find the associated classes: $group = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Group&nbsp; -Filter &#8220;Name = &#8216;Administrators&#8217;&#8221; Then find the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}