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

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objWMISecurity.add(backup)

subcount

WScript.sleep 1500:WScript.echo "deleting privilege"

objWMISecurity.remove(backup)

subCount

Sub subcount

wscript.echo "There is: " & objWMISecurity.count & " privileges"

End sub

Finding the Most Common Privileges

There are 27 different privileges. These are listed in Appendix B. You might wonder which are

the most important. Rather than give you an ambivalent “it depends” answer, I searched

through every Managed Object Format (MOF) file for every WMI class in the root\cimv2

namespace. The resulting list of operations and required privileges is contained in Appendix C.

This list tells you exactly which privilege you need to perform which opera ...