Chapter 9. WMI Continued

Before You Begin

To work through the material presented in this chapter, you need to be familiar with the following concepts from earlier chapters:

  • Connecting to the default WMI namespace

  • Accessing properties of dynamic WMI classes

  • Implementing the For...Next statement

  • Implementing a WMI query

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Implement alternate ways of configuring the WMI moniker

  • Query WMI

  • Set impersonation levels

  • Define the WMI object path

  • Navigate the WMI namespace

Alternate Ways of Configuring the WMI Moniker

In this section, you are going to look at different ways of constructing the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) moniker string. There are essentially three parts to the moniker. Of the three parts, ...

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