Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

What’s in a Name?

All classes of the IIS 6.0 WMI provider are contained in a namespace called MicrosoftIISv2. This namespace is made up of five different classes of elements, discussed briefly in the next few sections.

CIM_ManagedSystemElement

The CIM_ManagedSystemElement class contains elements that relate to the IIS meta-base schema. An example of one of these elements is the IISWebServer, which maps to an instance of an IIS Web server. Another element is the IISWebVirtualDir, which maps to an instance of a Web virtual directory. The elements in CIM_ManagedSystemElement are read-only. To set these types of settings, use the CIM_Setting class.

CIM_Setting

The elements in the CIM_Setting class map closely to the elements in the CIM_ManagedSystemElement ...