Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Selective Data from All Instances

The next level of sophistication (from using Select *) is to return only the properties you are interested in. This is a more efficient strategy. For instance, in the previous example, you did a Select * and returned a lot of data you weren’t necessarily interested in. Suppose you wanted to know only what shares are on each machine. With a simple change to the wmiQuery variable and by deleting a few WScript.Echo commands, you can modify your script to get exactly what you want.

Just the Steps

To select specific data

1. Make a connection to WMI.

2. Use the Select statement to choose the specific property you are interested ...