Inside Windows® Server 2003

Using WMI for Active Directory Event Notification

Many Active Directory features signal problems by writing to the Event log. It can be handy to have the domain controller notify you when this happens rather than checking the logs all the time. This notification can be built fairly simply using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

WMI permeates Windows Server 2003. You can discover virtually any fact about a computer, from the status of its network connections to the amount of free space on the drives to the temperature of the CPU, just by querying WMI.

WMI Reference A full-blown explanation of WMI falls outside the scope of this book. For a great reference, see Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) by Matthew Lavy and Ashley Meggitt ...