Deleting a services with Get-CIM*

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Hello everyone

I’m reworking some of my cmdlets to use Get-Cim instead of Get-WMIobject. My issue is

The Get-WmiObject way works.

$TDOCservices = Get-WmiObject -Class win32_service -filter “Name LIKE ‘%TDOC%’”
$TDOCservices.delete()

The Get-CimInstance way is not working…

$TDOCservices = Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_service -Filter “Name LIKE ‘%TDOC%’”
$TDOCservices.delete()

Can any tell me what I’m overlooking or misunderstood?

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Get-CimInstance returns an inert object that doesn’t have the WMI class methods available
You will need to run as
Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_service -Filter “Name LIKE ‘%TDOC%’” | invoke-cimmethod -methodname Delete

Remember that CIM cmdlets use WSMAN by default to access remote machines

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Thanks Richard
Will read up on the Invoke-cimmethod :slight_smile: