Chapter 13

Activities

1. We could write a fairly complicated cmdlet with Invoke-CimMethod, but that isn’t the best way to do it. Instead, we should use the cmdlet specifically written for this purpose, Stop- Process, with the ProcessId of the notepad process:

   Stop-Process -Id 8480

2. We can use Invoke-CimMethod like this:

Figure A.14 – Setting a default printer with CIM commands

In the first command, I put the printer object into a variable, then I used that variable as the input object for Invoke-CimMethod and invoked the SetDefaultPrinter method. The return value of 0 indicates success.

Note that the SetDefaultPrinter method doesn’t appear on the $printer variable. Unfortunately, we need to read the documentation to discover this method:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cimwin32prov/win32-printer-methods
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cimwin32prov/setdefaultprinter-method-in...