The last time we saw how to use WMIC to find membership of an Active Directory group. That is useful, and should be done periodically as a part of the audit of the Windows environment. Here’s another problem for WMIC to help with… Problem: The Critical Security Controls identifies Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Software […]

Let’s dig around a little deeper into the capabilities of WMIC and use WMIC to find information needed to solve a problem Problem: list the active users with access to a system, and the groups they belong to… Solution: 1. All user accounts that have access to a windows host can be listed using wmic […]

WMIC is a powerful means to access the Windows Management Interface from the command line. More information about WMI can be found at the Wikipedia page – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentation There are a couple of scenarios for using WIMIC – against the local computer and against a remote computer. With either of the situations, WMIC will run by […]