Microsoft® VBScript Step by Step

Chapter 10. Querying WMI

Before You Begin

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

• Creating the WMI moniker

• Implementing the For...Next construction

• Navigating the WMI namespace

• Implementing GetObject

• Implementing the ExecQuery method

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Return all properties from all instances of a class

• Return some properties from all instances of a class

• Return all properties from some instances of a class

• Return some properties from some instances of a class

Tell Me Everything About Everything!

When novices first write Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scripts, they nearly all begin by asking for every property about all instances ...