{"id":74210,"date":"2015-02-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/02\/powertip-use-poweshell-to-search-for-cim-classes\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:35:38","slug":"powertip-use-poweshell-to-search-for-cim-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-poweshell-to-search-for-cim-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PoweShell to Search for CIM Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search for CIM classes.<\/span>\n\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a CIM class on my machine?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use Get-WmiObject<\/b> in List<\/b> mode. For instance, to find the class for working with the registry, use:<\/p>\n

Get-WmiObject -Namespace root -Class StdRegProv -List –Recurse<\/p>\n

     Note<\/b> If you don’t know where a class can be found, always start at the root.<\/p>\n

If you want to find the classes for working with disks:<\/p>\n

Get-WmiObject -Namespace root -Class *disk* -List -Recurse<\/p>\n

If you know the namespace, you can simplify the search:<\/p>\n

Get-WmiObject -Namespace rootcimv2 -Class *disk* -List –Recurse<\/p>\n

     Note<\/b> If you don’t provide a namespace, the default of rootcimv2<\/b> is used.<\/p>\n

When you find likely classes, use Get-CimClass<\/b> to investigate details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search for CIM classes.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a CIM class on my machine?  Use Get-WmiObject in List mode. For instance, to find the class for working with the registry, use: Get-WmiObject -Namespace root -Class StdRegProv -List –Recurse      Note If you don’t know where a class […]<\/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":[385,356,26,189,45],"class_list":["post-74210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-cim","tag-powertip","tag-registry","tag-richard-siddaway","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search for CIM classes.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a CIM class on my machine?  Use Get-WmiObject in List mode. For instance, to find the class for working with the registry, use: Get-WmiObject -Namespace root -Class StdRegProv -List –Recurse      Note If you don’t know where a class […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74210","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=74210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74210\/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=74210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}