Understanding wmi scripting isbn 1555582664, lissoirs first book, explained to windows administrators the various wmi scripting techniques and manageability capabilities of this new windows server 2003 platform. Illustrated with hundreds of scripts and detailed tables, the book explained the underlying. Understanding wmi scripting by alain lissoir overdrive. Looking at some of these concepts provides a useful overview of the shell. The microsoft windows 2000 scripting guide provides a comprehensive overview of the scripting technologies. Understanding wmi scripting isbn 1555582664, lissoirs first book, explained to windows may 29. Understanding wmi scripting isbn 1555582664, lissoirs first book, explained to windows administrators the various wmi scripting techniques and manageability capabilities of this new. Top scripting guru don jones has written the definitive administrators guide to getting results with microsofts key scripting technologies. Getwmiobject, setwmiinstance, invokewmimethod, and removewmiobject. How to use wmi to retrieve info from your computer, not how to make a pretty widget.
Understanding wmi scripting explains to windows and exchange administrators how they can use the windows management instrumentation wmi scriptable technology available in these products to ease their daytoday management tasks. Powershell is the relatively new kid on the block thats bringing automation to administrators who havent considered it in the past. Several of the concepts will be familiar to people with experience in shells or programming environments. Understanding the windows management instrumentation wmi. Wmi for detection and response homeland security digital. Understanding wmi malware 5 research paper i understanding wmi malware unfortunately, however, each of the abovementioned capabilities of wmi can be used for a malicious pragma in the following ways. Wmi is the microsoft implementation of the webbased enterprise management wbem4. Wmi provided a generic means of turning a file write to. After selecting namespace, class, and method script will be generated for user which. Wmibased applications such as sms, the wmi scripting api, or tools such as cim studio to manage wmienabled computers. Fragments of wmi commands may be found within the process memory for the following. Windows management instrumentation, otherwise known as wmi, provides a standard interface in order to allow interaction with windowsbased system regardless of the hardware and windows version. If youre looking for a free download links of understanding wmi scripting. Top windows management instrumentation wmi scripting.
The chapter used some relatively simple automation tasks and code examples. Understanding powershell commands powershell tutorial. A walkthrough on setting up kansa and an in depth explanation of its many. Understanding wmi scripting hp technologies pdf free.
Abusing windows management instrumentation wmi to build a persistent, asyncronous, and fileless backdoor matt graeber. More scripting tricks managing windows networks using scripts part 12. Wmi provides a straightforward syntax for querying wmi object instances, classes, and namespaces. Part i introduction to windows administrative scripting 1 scripting concepts and terminology. Lessons understanding wmicim querying data with wmicim making changes with wmicim. Understanding wmi wmi has been around since the days of windows 98 and earlier, only back then it was called something different. Similar to a driver, a provider supplies wmi with data from a managed object and handles messages from wmi to the managed object. This will dramatically extend the scripting and manageability capabilities. Read understanding wmi scripting online by alain lissoir books.
Contents at a glance foreword xv introduction xvii chapter 1 overview of windows powershell 3. Understanding wmi scripting explains to windows and exchange administrators how they can use the windows management instrumentation wmi scriptable. In the first book, understanding wmi scripting isbn 1555582664, we discovered the windows scripting environment and the wmi architecture with its set of supported tools. The scripting guide also includes hundreds of prewritten scripts that enable you to perform. Understanding basic wmi scripting concepts such as classes objects, properties and methods see managing windows networks using scripts, part 1 the basics.
Dont worry about adding scripts yet, we will do that in a later step. Understanding wmi scripting isbn 9781555582661 pdf epub. The examples are clear and pertinent to the needs of the daytoday system administrator. Chapter 1 introduction to wmi in configuration manager 2012 3 webbased enterprise management wbem 3 windows management instrumentation wmi 4 managed objects and wmi providers 4 wmi infrastructure 5 wmi consumers 6 understanding wmi schema 6 namespaces 7. Net and commerce 2000 sp2, microsoft is making robust enhancements in wmi. Windows powershell step by step augusta state university. Exploiting microsofts windows management instrumentation in missioncritical computing infrastructures hp technologies kindle edition by lissoir, alain. Microsoft windows scripting with wmi selfpaced learning guide. Wmi is the microsoft implementation of webbased enterprise management wbem, with some enhancements in the initial version of it, wbem is a industry initiative to develop a standard technology for accessing management information in an enterprise environment that covers not only windows but also many other types. Understanding pdf computers 376 pages aug 31, 2011 this book is a convenient. The two main languages supported by wmi are powershell and vbscript through the windows script host, or wsh.
The following is a small sampling of full wmi class paths returned by the script. The powershell design integrates concepts from many different environments. Net and exchange 2000 sp2, microsoft is making solid enhancements in wmi. Powershell was designed with tight integration with wmi in mind. A guide to windows management instrumentation download.
Download understanding wmi scripting exploiting microsofts windows management instrumentation in pdf onlineread or download in here. Wbem was a technology developed jointly by microsoft, cisco, intel, compaq and bmc software to make it easier to manage desktop and server systems in enterprise environments. Connectserver method with the following parameters computername the name of the target computer where the wmi queries are addressed. We also learned the wmi query language wql and the wmi com scripting api in order to. A managed object is a logical or physical enterprise component, such as a hard disk drive, net work adapter, database system, operating system, process, or service. Part iii windows management instrumentation and active directory services interface 14 working with adsi providers. Exploiting microsofts windows management instrumentation in missioncritical computing infrastructures hp technologies pdf, epub, docx and torrent then this site is not for you. Download understanding wmi scripting exploiting microsofts. Understanding how the pipeline works using psproviders and psdrives querying system information by using wmi and cim working with variables, arrays, and hash basic scripting advanced scripting administering remote computers using background jobs and scheduled jobs using advanced windows powershell techniques. A guide to windows management instrumentation ebook free. Jones draws on his unsurpassed experience training windows administrators in conferences, classes, and from his enormously popular site.
Understanding wmi scripting isbn 1555582664, lissoirs. A guide to windows management instrumentation free ebook. Leveraging wmi scripting by alain lissoir overdrive. Introduction to wmi basics with powershell part 1 what it. Wmi is the microsoft implementation of webbased enterprise management wbem, with some enhancements in the initial version of it, wbem is a industry initiative to develop a standard technology for accessing management information in an enterprise environment that covers not only windows but also many other types of devices like routers. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading understanding wmi scripting. Leveraging wmi scripting isbn 9781555582999 pdf epub. In this tutorial, you will learn what windows management instrumentation wmi is and how to interact with it.
Alain lissoir leveraging wmi scripting using windows. Bob reselman, principal cognitive arts and technologies this document is created with the unregistered version of chm2pdf pilot. Introduction xix chapter 1 overview of windows powershell 5. Using wmi and cim in this module, students will learn to use windows management instrumentation common information model wmicim to retrieve, and in some cases, modify management information about local and remote computers. Powershell is an extremely powerful scripting language that contains a wealth of functionality for. I need to know where to enter the process and what this is doing. Forensic artifacts generated when wmi has been used ways to increase the forensic evidence of wmi to benefit your investigations. Powershell commands, also known as cmdlets, are defined within powershell as classes that implement their functionality by using. Leveraging wmi scripting is the second in a series of two books dedicated to wmi. As a database, malware can leverage the information found in wmi for malicious purposes, primarily information stealing. Namespace the namespace of the wmi objects used in scripts. Understanding wmi scripting pdf adobe drm can be read on any device that can open pdf adobe drm files. I am still very new to vb, i would like to see if someone could explain this script to me. Understanding wmi scripting explains to windows and commerce administrators how they may use the windows management instrumentation wmi scriptable technology obtainable in these merchandise to ease their daytoday administration duties.
As such, much of the underlying elements of wmi are built into the wmi cmdlets. This document is created with the unregistered version of. Active directory service interfaces adsi, and windows management instrumentation wmi. Exploiting microsofts windows management instrumentation in missioncritical computing infrastructures alain lissoir 2003 digital press, 2003 2003 understanding wmi scripting. Understanding important powershell concepts powershell.
Exploiting microsofts windows management instrumentation in missioncritical computing infrastructures hp technologies. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Intrinsic and extrinsic events will be explained in further detail in the eventing. Using wmi cli commands for detection and removal of malicious wmi. Net classes compiled into dynamic link libraries dlls that are loaded by psh. Exploiting microsofts windows management instrumentation in missioncritical computing infrastructures hp technologies by alain lissoir understanding wmi scripting explains to windows and exchange administrators how they can use the windows management instrumentation wmi scriptable technology available in these products to ease their daytoday management tasks.
Specifically, you should have learned the following that are essential for successful wmi scripting. Automating administration with windows powershell this 5day course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use windows powershell 4. Exploiting microsofts windows management instrumentation. Windows management instrumentation commandline wmic. How to use wmi during each phase of an intrusion how to undermine detection when using wmi some of the ways wmi can be used to achieve persistence blue side. Properties of a wmi class managing windows networks using scripts part. Leveraging wmi scripting using windows management instrumentation to solve windows management problems alain lissoir leveraging wmi scripting is the second in a series of two books dedicated to wmi. It focuses on primary windows powershell commandline features and techniques, and will provide pre. This book will provide any technical reader with a realworld understanding of how to use vbscript with wmi. Automating tasks in chapter 9, understanding wmi, scripting, and hyperv, you were introduced to windows management instrumentation wmi and scripting concepts that are important to understand ing when effectively automating hyperv administrative tasks. Step 2 wmi basic connection wmi is used to pull information from your system, things like computer name, user name, what drives are attached to your system.
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