Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Getting classes

The Get-CimClass command is used to return an instance of a WMI class:

PS> Get-CimClass Win32_ProcessNameSpace: ROOT/cimv2CimClassName     CimClassMethods                CimClassProperties ------------     ---------------                ------------------ Win32_Process    {Create, Terminate, Get...}    {Caption, Description, InstallDate, Name...} 

The Class object describes the capabilities of that class. By default, Get-CimClass lists classes from the root\cimv2 namespace.

The Namespace parameter will fill using tab completion; that is, if the following partial command is entered, pressing Tab repeatedly will cycle through the possible root namespaces:

Get-CimClass -Namespace <tab, tab, tab> 

The child namespaces of a given namespace are listed in a __Namespace class ...