WMI is a new management technology allowing scripts to monitor and control managed resources throughout the network. Resources include hard drives, file systems, operating system settings, processes, services, shares, registry settings, networking components, event logs, users, and groups. WMI is built into clients with Windows 2000 or above, and can be installed on any other 32-bit Windows client.

Because WMI sits between a management application and the managed applications and hardware, WMI is able to provide support for management application queries....   Read Article.

After you set the security levels for your IWbemServices pointer, you can access the various capabilities of WMI. After you finish using WMI, you must shut down your application....   Read Article.

WMI is a middle-layer technology that enables standardized management of Windows-based computers. It collects computer management data from a wide variety of sources and makes it accessible by using standard interfaces....   Read Article.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an industry initiative to develop a standardized technology for accessing management information in enterprise environments....   Read Article.

kmarch, Kernel, Design, General Techniques for Testing WMI Driver Support...   Read Article.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) contains an event infrastructure that produces notifications about changes in WMI data and services....   Read Article.

storage, Kernel, Reference, iSCSI WMI Common Classes...   Read Article.

The log files created by WMI and various providers record events, trace or diagnostic data, errors, and various activities....   Read Article.

Use this wizard to build a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) instance provider. Instance providers manage the WMI data that is used to represent the management state of your system....   Read Article.

Describes how to find the correct WMI class and procedures to use in scripts and applications that perform common computer and network administration tasks....   Read Article.

WMI automatically maps SNMP traps to WMI events. The system places the data contained in the trap in the corresponding properties of a WMI event instance for access by the WMI host machine....   Read Article.

You can display WMI provider information through ODBC, using forms in MicrosoftAcirc;reg; AccessAcirc;reg;....   Read Article.

Access to WMI class and instance data is controlled on a namespace basis....   Read Article.

The procedures outlined in this section describe how to connect to a WMI namespace, retrieve and display information, and receive asynchronous event notifications when the underlying data in the namespace changes....   Read Article.

Current articles from support.microsoft.com....   Read Article.

The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) ActiveX controls that require a connection to WMI have an event called GetIWbemServices that is triggered when the control needs to connect to a WMI namespace. To provide the connection, use the......   Read Article.

This article introduces Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI,) part of Windows 2000, which helps administrators manage enterprise systems, applications and networks through the WMI scripting interface....   Read Article.

This paper presents an overview of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) technology and concentrates on WMI's support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)....   Read Article.

Describes how to install a Windows Installer package from a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) script....   Read Article.

The versions of Windows that are listed at the beginning of this article include a command-line utility (Wmic.exe) to access Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Previously, an end user would generally write a script to gather information by......   Read Article.