Microsoft® Windows® Scripting with WMI: Self-Paced Learning Guide

88 Part II: WMI Queries and Events

Set colItems = objWMIService.execquery(wmiQuery)

For Each objItem in colItems

With

objItem

Wscript.Echo .path_.relpath

WScript.Echo vbtab & .displayName & vbcrlf & vbtab & .pathName

End with

Next

role

The last way to filter out references of queries in the Where clause is to use the role keyword. The

role keyword is used to specify associations that fill a particular role.

Using the ExecQuery Method

You will use the ExecQuery method many times. Remember, methods do something, so you

can use the ExecQuery method to retrieve a collection of objects from WMI. The objects are

returned as an SWbemObjectSet collection. In this section, we examine the use of ExecQuery,

the flags used to modify it, and the sp