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

124 Part III: Connect Server and Additional Privileges

Using the Locator Object

The SWbemLocator object offers a different way to make a connection into WMI. When you

use the SWbemLocator object, the SWbemServices object returned is your connection into the

specified namespace on either a local or a remote computer. Once you have made this connec-

tion, you can use any of the SWbemServices methods to accomplish the task at hand.

At first glance, it might seem that the SWbemLocator is rather lame—it ha

s only one method:

the ConnectServer method. It also has only one property: the Security_ property. Do not allow

this seeming lack of richness to fool you—this is the Swiss Army knife of WMI objects.

Using Alternate Credentials

One of the p