Just a quick note before the weekend starts to let folks know I updated the GPOGUY.COM WMI Filter Test Utility to include timing information (see below).
Specifically, this lets you see how long a given WMI filter took to evaluate on the target system, so you can see roughly how long it will take to evaluate during GP Processing. This means that now you can not only test your WMI filters against real target systems to see if they evaluate to true, but you can also see how “expensive” they are in terms of GP processing.
Here’s the link:
http://gpoguy.com/free-tools/free-tools-library/wmi-filter-validation-utility/
Enjoy!
Darren
Hi Darren,
Where can I find the WMI Filter test utility ?
thanks
Alex
Hi Alex-
A link would help, huh? :-). You can find the tool here: http://www.gpoguy.com/FreeTools/FreeToolsLibrary/tabid/67/agentType/View/PropertyID/93/Default.aspx
Thanks! And yes of course 🙂 i probably had the gpoguy sdm link disabled for a moment.
Hi Darren,
I’ve used WMI Filter Test for years and greatly appreciate it.
I have a suggestion…in addition to allowing us to test WMI Filters already present in AD, let us enter WMI queries ad hoc to test them as we develop them, and before we deploy them. Once we have it right, THEN we can copy & paste into GPMC. Or (perhaps, if you have dev time to spare) WMIFT could create the WMI Filter automagically from the tested output.
This would also be useful for much more than GPMC. Thinking, here, of VB or PowerShell scripts, and SCCM Queries. (The latter of which I happen to be using WMIFT for as I write this!)
Thanks Jeff! I will put it on the “list” for the next version. May be a while but good suggestions!
-Darren
Looks like a great tool and would love to try it but the link no longer works 🙁
I went ahead and updated the current link in the post, so you should be able to find it now!