Commonly used WMIC Commands

Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC), uses the power of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to enable systems management from the command line

lets go through some commonly used WMIC Commands

How to find out Serial no of a system from command prompt

a) wmic csproduct get name,vendor,identifyingNumber

ex:

IdentifyingNumber      Name                   Vendor
99L9891                    Latitude D610       Dell Inc.


How to get MAC Address from Command prompt

b) wmic nic get macaddress,description

ex:

Description                                                       MACAddress
Infrared Port
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)           00:xxxxxxxxxxx:19
RAS Async Adapter
WAN Miniport (L2TP)
WAN Miniport (PPTP)                                        50:xxxxxxxxxxx:30



How to get Harddisk model/make details from Command prompt

c) wmic diskdrive get name,size,model

ex: 
Model                    Name                Size
Hitachi HTS721080G9AT00  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0  80023749120



Find out BIOS Details from Command prompt

d) wmic bios get name,serialnumber,version

ex: 
Name                                    SerialNumber  Version
Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06  99L9891       DELL   - 27d50a02



Find out Details of Windows updates installed from command prompt

e) wmic qfe get description,installedOn /format:csv

ex: 
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB929969),3/14/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB930178),4/11/2007
PCPC3-D610,Update for Windows XP (KB930916),5/10/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB931261),4/11/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB931768),5/10/2007
PCPC3-D610,Security Update for Windows XP (KB931784),4/11/2007



Get Partition details of Hard disk from command prompt

f) 
C:\>wmic

wmic:root\cli>partition get name,bootable,size,type

ex:

Bootable  Name                   Size         Type
TRUE      Disk #0, Partition #0  4194860544   Installable File System
               Disk #0, Partition #1  9475522560   Extended Partition
TRUE      Disk #1, Partition #0  8389753344   Unknown
               Disk #1, Partition #1  11630545920  Unknown