Using the Common Information Model (CIM)

The CIM is an open standard that was developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), and defines the structure and relationship of IT elements. On Windows, the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) implements CIM. To work with these data structures remotely in PowerShell, you can use CIM remoting. This recipe shows you some common use cases for CIM remoting.

Getting ready

Install and start PowerShell Core.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. Technically, CIM sessions don't require either PowerShell...