Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Summary

In this chapter, you examined the construction of the WMI moniker. You looked at various ways in which the moniker can be built and the ways in which it can be utilized. In addition, you studied the defaults that are configured on a Windows Server 2003 machine, and saw different ways of modifying that behavior. You then spent quite a bit of time looking at security surrounding the WMI connection. You looked at both impersonation features and individual security settings. Finally, the chapter concluded with a discussion of WbemPrivilegeEnum constants and an exploration of how to convert WbemPrivilegeEnum constants into Windows NT and Windows 2000 strings.