WMI is a DCOM application; therefore, when you make calls to WMI in your script—whether they’ll run on a local or remote machine—DCOM comes into play. If your WMI script attempts to execute WMI ...

Over at ScriptingAnswers.com (my Web site on administrative scripting), we’ve had a number of users fighting with Windows XP SP2 issues related to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scripting.

Symantec's flagship consumer antivirus application contains a vulnerability that can allow certain malicious scripts to pass through without being scanned, according to a security researcher. Dan ...

You could wrap it up as a software install, or run it with something like a login script or psexec, but you could just change the SID on every machine, instead of ...

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is useful to businesses for a number of system administration tasks on Windows machines, including copying files. The operation for file manipulation only ...

Can't figure this one out. <BR><BR>I'm a member of the Domain Admins group in a Windows 2000 Mixed Mode domain. No NT servers anywhere though.<BR><BR>My desktop is running Windows XP Sp2. I go to ...

Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.