Dookieman12@Dookieman12@piefed.social

Replying to an earlier post

Yeah, and I bet not a single admin has ever used this feature. It’s obscure, barely works, arguably causes more problems than it solves, and there are many other tools that fulfill the same use case, better.

This is one of those things I learned about because it wss in a textbook then never used again. The two or three times I asked about using as part of a solution at work, I got either a confused look or a “good joke” reaction.

That was close to ten years ago. This is the first I’m hearing about them since then.

ITGuyLevi@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev

Replying to an earlier post

WMIC allows an amazing amount of control for admins that know what they are doing. One of my favorite uses was back when I worked helpdesk, users would exit Lync and be unreachable, well WMIC can allow an admin to open that app back up in the users session and then they are suddenly reachable again.

Some people use the old psexec, others have been using WMIC since before powershell even existed.

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