I'm getting an exception with a message of "Access Denied" when executing against a WMI request. Some WMI requests appear to require higher security privileges than others. Ultimately my goal is to monitor process launches within the system and log. Regardless if there is a better approach, its now become a vendetta in getting this WM...
I have a script written in Visual Basic that starts a process (given to the script as an argument) on a remote system (again, given as an argument) using WMI. This script works fine when using an Administrator account on the remote system, but when using a non-administrator account, I get the following error: ConnectServer Failed w/ (-2...
I am trying to identify a method for obtaining nearby wifi access points using C in Windows. I am coding in Visual Studio 2010. I have read the necessary documentation but am lacking in guidance on how to implement code that would accomplish this. I am specifically interested in obtaining the MAC address of nearby access points or at a ...
Whenever user plug a USB mass storage device, how to get the Device Instance ID (unique ID) of that particular device programmatically? ...
I've written a C# Windows Service that restarts processes and services on remote machines. It works fine, however for some of the processes that I need to restart, The application needs a GUI.... .....Are there any hacks to get the GUI to display when starting a process remotely? ...
Hi! Does anyone has some example about accessing Active Directory, LDAP querying using WMI (System.Management namespace) and not System.DirectoryServices namespace. Here on MSDN page it is described a little using CIM classes http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa392320(v=VS.85).aspx But I cant find some C# example realizing it. ...
I am writing a C# windows service that is doing some churning through the eventlog on a few domain controllers. Some of them are Windows Server 2003 and some are Windows Server 2008. Upon the service stopping I am attempting to resume where I left off in the logs. In order to do this instead of SELECT * FROM Win32_NTLogEvent WHERE --cr...
As you know, Windows has a "Add/Remove Programs" system in the Control Panel. Let's say I am preparing an installer and I want to register my program to list of installed programs and want it to be uninstallable from "Add/Remove Programs"? Which protocols should I use. Any tutorials or docs about registering programs to that list? I ...
I am using C# & WMI to retrieve REMOTE COMPUTER services. The connection is made using ConnectionOptions with username & password. Username has administrative privilege. I can query Win32_OperatingSystem OR Win32_LogicalDisk without any problem. But when I query SELECT * FROM Win32_Service then I get Access Denied issue. I give permissio...
I'm using following two WMI queries : SELECT * FROM Win32_Group WHERE LocalAccount=true SELECT Domain,Name FROM Win32_UserAccount WHERE LocalAccount=true The 2nd query takes about 6 seconds to run (over only 4 users) whereas the 1st query takes about .3 seconds to run over 22 groups. Can somebody tell me why is there such a performan...
I have some simple code: ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("select * from Win32_UninterruptiblePowerSupply"); ManagementObjectCollection items = searcher.Get(); foreach (ManagementObject item in items) { // Some code here... } The "items" object is semi-null. It's actually an object, but a cal...
Hey all I have a simple problem I was hoping someone can give me assistance with. I'm trying to get WMIC to return output however on different machines, the executable is in different directories. Is there a method to check all directories I list to get it to run, e.g.: IF EXIST wmic=c:\checkhere\ ELSE wmic=c:\checkthisone\ CONTINUE ...
Im looking for a way to remove a mount point (with either powershell/wmi/C#). I used the win32_volume to find what volumes have mount points and can find the path there (under name and caption) but i cant figure out how to delete those mount points. the win32_volume namespace has a method to create them but nothing to delete. the win32_m...
Hey all, I'm trying to get info about installed software on local computers (one is Windows 7 and other XP SP3) and I'm able to do it with VBScript, but not with C#. Here is the VBScript code: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _ & strComputer & "\root\cimv2"...
Can anyone tell me how I can manage(or if not possible, monitor) programatically the people who are allowed to interactively logon(that is through actual physical access) on a windows machine attached to an active directory architecture? Something in BCL/FCL is preferred but COM interop/WMI is also fine. ...
My question is really simple, but apparently nobody's experienced a similar error. I'm writing a program to check if a WMI Class's property is writeable, that is, if the "Write" qualifier is true for that property. My code looks like this: ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\\CIMV2", "SELECT * FROM " + "W...
Here is my code float cpuLoad = 0; try{ MessageBox.Show("Running"); //CPU Load PerformanceCounter cpuCounter = new PerformanceCounter(); cpuCounter.CategoryName = "Processor"; cpuCounter.CounterName = "% Processor Time"; cpuCounter.InstanceName = "_Total"; MessageBox.Show("Performance Counter Created"); ...
Hello, I'm looking for how to recorgnize some server (windows in my case) network configuration (information we obtain using netstat dos command). I have the login and password of the target (server), and I developp with visual studio 2005 (c# or vB.NET doesn't matter). (Can I use WMI for that ???) Regards, ...
I'm not looking for User SIDs. I'm looking for the computer SID, which active directory would use to uniquely identify the computer. I also don't want to query the active directory server, i want to query the computer itself. ...
I see a bunch of articles on MSDN on how WMI can do all kinds of things, and even a mention of how I can use AppDomainInfo to change the logging and tracing levels at runtime using WMI, but no code examples or implementations anywhere. Has anyone done this? I'm using .net 4.0.. ...