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Winrm allows me to query WMI via the WS-MAN protocol as opposed to DCOM. However, in the DCOM implementation I can retrieve the data types of the various properties of the various classes I query. However, if I use winrm I just get back the values. Is there any way to query the datatypes?

For example c:> winrm enum wmicimv2/* -dialect:wql -filter:"Select * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem"

Will return something like

    <wsman:Results xmlns:wsman="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman/results">
    <p:Win32_ComputerSystem xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/cimv2/Win32_ComputerSystem" xmlns:cim="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/common" xsi:type="p:Win32_ComputerSystem_Type" xml:lang="en-US">

<p:AdminPasswordStatus>3</p:AdminPasswordStatus>
<p:AutomaticManagedPagefile>true</p:AutomaticManagedPagefile>
<p:AutomaticResetBootOption>true</p:AutomaticResetBootOption>
<p:AutomaticResetCapability>true</p:AutomaticResetCapability>
<p:BootOptionOnLimit xsi:nil="true"/><p:BootOptionOnWatchDog xsi:nil="true"/>
<p:BootROMSupported>true</p:BootROMSupported>
<p:BootupState>Normal boot</p:BootupState>
.....

However, as you can see, the data types are not there. I do know the data types because this is a standard Win32 object. The schema is online and I could statically figure it out. However, there may be custom classes. The DCOM Wmi approach allowed me to query the properties and find out a little more details about them, such as their data type and if they were an array or not. Can I do the same via winrm/wsman. I know this can be done via powershell. I'm looking for a winrm/wsman approach and not powershell

Thanks

I've got an application running on IIS 6 that's being hit by hundreds of remote clients doing all kinds of requests, some that are long running and some that are not.

On some deployments, one in particular at the moment, the ASP .NET Applications - Requests Executing counter just keeps climbing until it hits the limit (5000) and then the server stops accepting requests.

Here are some very interesting facts when diagnosing the problem:

1. Thread count on the w3p processes and the System process are both low (under 100)

2. CPU on entire system is low

3. Total number of TCP connections listed in netstat -a (in any state) is arround 600, which is expected because we have about 600 remote clients.

So why would the request executing in IIS be at 5000 when really nothing is happening and everything seems to start and terminate properly?

EDIT

I'd like to add that these are async calls using the IHttpAsyncHandler pattern. I believe that these do not have a timeout.

I have a Hyper-V machine with one NIC card. I've set up a Virtual Network and provided connectivity to the guest OSs. The problem is that on restart of the host machine, i start up with no connectivity whatsoever (either for the host or the guests). I have to reconfigure the Virtual Network in the Hyper-V manager everytime to regain connectivity.

Am i doing something wrong? Is there a fix for this?

Remote Desktop allows you to share the clipboard. It even allows you to copy files through a copy and paste mechanism. However, remote assistance does not seem to allow you to do this. Microsoft has made many changes to remote assistance to simplify establishing the connection, however, once connected, I can't even copy and paste text.

Is there any way to fix this?

There are lots of tools for creating RAM drives. None of them seem to work for windows 2008 R2. Does anyone know if this is possible and if so how. Does anyone know of a tool that does work?

I've tried the gavotte ram disk. It doesn't work. When i try to install it it just sais "Failed". I don't see log files anywhere. I've tried a couple of other ones (forgot the names) to no avail.

Any ideas?

Thanks