Powershell WMI one-liners

The PowerShell WMI capability is quite advanced and provides a vast scope for processing a returned recordset easily and effectively.

Here are just three types of Powershell WMI calls using different namespaces.

Return details about a service
get-wmiobject win32_service -filter "name='alerter'"

Return a users first name from Active Directory
(Get-WmiObject -namespace "root\directory\ldap" -class ds_user -filter "ds_Cn='[UserID]'").DS_givenname

Return details about a specified SMS package
Get-WmiObject -computer [SMSServer] -namespace root\sms\site_[SiteCode] -Query "SELECT * FROM SMS_Package WHERE PackageID='[PackageID]'"