wmic – Tarik Billa

What can I do about “WMIC is deprecated”?

September 3, 2023 by Tarik

As mentioned in comments, WMIC is utility that acts as interface to communication with WMI. It’s not WMI itself that is being deprecated, but “just” the interface. Since Microsoft is pushing PowerShell, I believe official successor wmic would be PowerShell commandlet Get-WmiObject. How to use this can be found on Microsoft documentation: LINK [UPDATED] As … Read more

How to view user privileges using windows cmd?

August 20, 2023 by Tarik

You can use the following commands: whoami /priv whoami /all For more information, check whoami @ technet.

Determine Domain and username used to map a network drive

February 26, 2023 by Tarik

WMI is your friend: > wmic netuse where LocalName=”Z:” get UserName /value UserName=rd-pc2037\Administrator [anonymous suggestion 2022-08-07]: Since Microsoft is gradually moving away from WMI, Powershell/CIM is your future friend: Get-CimInstance -classname Win32_NetworkConnection | select-object Remotename,Username