Chapter 16. Building your own WMI-based cmdlets
Richard Siddaway
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 come with a mass of new PowerShell functionality. Depending on the features installed the server version may have 2,500 or more new cmdlets! Did you know that of that of those 2,500 cmdlets, more than 60 percent are based on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)? This chapter explains how you can create your own WMI-based cmdlets.
Discovering WMI-based cmdlets
On a Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 system try this:
PS> Get-ChildItem -Path $pshome\modules\netTCPIP Directory: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\modules\netTCPIP Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d---- 26/08/2012 14:40 en-US -a--- 02/06/2012 ...
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