Invoke remote device actions via PowerShell

This will be a short blog post about a the newly introduced WMI class, in the latest service pack, called SMS_DeviceAction. As I’m currently working on a new tool to remotely manage mobile devices, which will be released soon, I noticed that the SMS_DeviceAction class is used to invoke and query the Lock and PinReset actions. What’s even more important is the fact that the SMS_DeviceAction class isn’t documented, yet. In this blog post I’ll post the required information to successfully query the SMS_DeviceAction class and to successfully invoke the methods of the SMS_DeviceAction class. Methods The SMS_DeviceAction class contains the method InvokeAction. The InvokeAction method requires the following input parameters. Parameter Data Type Description Action String This parameter is required and should contain the …

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