Comments on: The WMI Filter Contest - are you the knight in shining armor?

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:17:32 +0000

Just wondering if you guys found a solution on this yet?

I have this situation where the same GP applied differently to desktop and laptops. E.g. Group Policy A will be set to X for Desktop and Y for Laptops.

2 GPOs. First GPO, apply X to everything, so, all workstations regardless of desktop or laptop will get applied with setting X.

Second GPO with WIM filtering “Select * from Win32_Battery Where Availability IS NOT NULL”, apply Y to the everything.

Make the second policy precendence of the first policy. In this case, desktop will get setting “X” from the first policy, and laptop will get overwritten by policy “Y” from second policy because the WMI is true for laptop but not desktop.

That’s the best I can come up with for the time being.. Do you guys have any better idea?

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:32:38 +0000

This will only work on systems with Vista on up but you can do:

Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE PCSystemType= 1 OR PCSystemType = 3

1 = Desktop
3 = Workstation

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:06:53 +0000

I have Dell laptops (latitude D830’s) that respond with FormFactor = 8

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:01:35 +0000

Some Dell Latitude laptops return FormFactor = 8, so this is not a “universal” solution.

By: Sheree

Sheree — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:31:28 +0000

Here’s what I use:

Desktop:
SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMemory WHERE FormFactor = 8
(8 is “DIMM”–add other numbers if you have RIMMs or SIMMs.)

Laptops:
SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMemory WHERE FormFactor = 12
(12 is “SODIMM”.)