Once you decide on something like the CPU alias, type
WMIC CPU /?
and press Enter to see the list
of actions you can perform. After you decide on an action, such as GET, type
WMIC CPU GET /?
and
press Enter to obtain the information you need about the GET action for the CPU alias. Of course,
you can always save yourself a lot of time and simply look up the help for WMIC in this book (see
Appendix B for an alphabetical list of commands and utilities).
Test Your Theories on a Test System
Nothing is so unforgiving as the command prompt when it comes to experimentation. You can
completely trash your hard drive in a matter of seconds and may not even realize it. It??™s possible to
kill groups, eliminate users, remove applications, destroy data wholesale, and completely ruin
your career without a single word of warning from the command line.
This isn??™t the place to test out something without realizing that things can go horribly wrong
very quickly. In fact, the reason that many administrators moved from the command line to the
GUI is to avoid such errors, but you don??™t have that choice when working with Server Core, so you
have to work safely at all times.
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