Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Creating a shared directory

The following snippet creates a directory and shares that directory:

$path = 'C:\Temp\WmiPermissions' New-Item $path -ItemType Directory$params = @{    ClassName = 'Win32_Share'    MethodName = 'Create'    Arguments = @{        Name = 'WmiPerms'        Path = $path        Type = [UInt32]0    }}Invoke-CimMethod @params 

The Create method used here will fail if the argument for Type is not correctly defined as a UInt32 value. PowerShell will otherwise use Int32 for a value of 0.

The requirement for UInt32, in this case, may be viewed by exploring the parameters required for the method:

PS> (Get-CimClass Win32_Share).CimClassMethods['Create'].Parameters | Where-Object Name -eq TypeName CimType Qualifiers ReferenceClassName---- ------- ---------- ...