WMI Filters are filters used via Group Policy Managment in Active Directory to control what GPO’s are applied to what machine. They are rather simple to understand as they are structured like SQL all you need to know is the data stored in WMI.
Here’s a couple of filters I have found useful.
Detect OS Version:
Windows 7
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "6.1%" AND ProductType = "1"
Widows 2008 R2
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "6.1%" AND ProductType = "2"
Windows Vista
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "6.0%" AND ProductType = "1"
Windows 2008
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "6.0%" AND ProductType = "2"
Windows XP
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "5.1%"
Windows 2003
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "5.2%"
Windows 2000
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "5.0%"
Detect Arcitecture:
Windows x64 (64bit)
SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor WHERE AddressWidth="64"
Windows x86 (32bit)
SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor WHERE AddressWidth="32"
Detect Service Pack:
Service Pack 3 or above
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE ServicePackMajorVersion>=3
Pre-Service Pack 3
SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE ServicePackMajorVersion<3
The filters can be included together to create more precise detection such as Windows XP SP2 or Windows 7 x64 SP1.
I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve got a job; I am now a full time website developer!
After being in the job a month, I have learnt so much more about developing websites and web based systems; enough in fact that I am currently redeveloping gg-sim to be mobile friendly and display some prettiness!
I have an aim to redevelop ldir to be more useful depending on how people wish to implement it. This will mean that the function will have some major changes but I will also develop a wrapper for it so it can function like before if people have utilised it but with to update.
As part of a project, I have utilised PHPs SNMP functions and after some testing, I have found that SNMPWalk is considerably slower than multiple SNMPGet.
I was aiming to retrieve 6 Objects from a MIB; the device being polled was attached via a 100mbps network link.
I decided to run SNMPGet within a loop to retrieve each Object from the specified OID’s.
As these OID’s were within the same tree, I then thought about using walk as this would consolidate the data into a single request. I then walked the tree to get the same result.
I subsequently tested the time it took to retrieve this information via microtime().
As a result, you can retrieve 1 walk containing 6 OID’s within the same time as requesting 18 OIDs via get.
I hope this helps someone whom is looking to speed up their SNMP requests.
Every now and then I want to make my batch scripts pause or wait for x amount of time. Most solutions seem to utilise ping to make it wait as natively Windows doesn’t include a sleep or wait feature and pause only accepts a user input.
Here comes the timeout command!
TIMEOUT /NOBREAK /T 10 >NUL
will make your scripts wait for 10 seconds and display no output, without the >NUL it will display a countdown.
