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.

This week, I want to briefly cover some often-confusing parts about Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) security. Keep in mind that when you connect to WMI on a remote computer, you’re really ...

It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...

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 ...

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 ...