Quick start – PowerShell 3.0 WMI basics
One of the biggest changes you will see in the PowerShell 3.0 release is the new CIM cmdlets for remote management. In the previous versions of PowerShell, the WMI cmdlets were executed through a protocol known as Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). It is a proprietary Microsoft protocol and bound to the WMI cmdlets that are able to work with the Windows operating systems. Since this did not provide for interoperability with the other CIM-based servers, Microsoft introduced Web Services for Management (WS-Man) cmdlets for use with non-Windows-based systems. The problem with the WS-Man cmdlets, however, is that they are SOAP-based, and don't provide a user-friendly experience within PowerShell.
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