Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Accepting Defaults

Several fields are optional in constructing a finely tuned WMI moniker, and there are clearly defined defaults for those optional fields. The defaults are stored in the following registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WBEM\Scripting. There are two keys: impersonation level and default namespace. Impersonation level is set to a default of 3, which means that WMI impersonates the logged-on user. The default namespace is set to root\cimv2. In reality, these are pretty good defaults. The default computer is the local machine, so you don’t need to specify the computer name when you’re simply running against the local machine. All this means is that you can simplify your connection string to WMI. A default moniker ...