PowerShell and WMI

Appendix B. WMI reference

This appendix supplies a collection of WMI-related reference material to help you when writing PowerShell scripts that use WMI.

B.1. Useful WMI namespaces

There are a number of WMI namespaces that you’ll often use. These are collected in table B.1.

Table B.1. Useful WMI namespaces

Namespace	Comments
Root\cim2	Default WMI namespace; contains the majority of the Win32 classes
Root\wmi	Contains many hardware-related classes but is mainly undocumented
root\MicrosoftDNS	DNS server management
root\virtualization	Hyper-V management
Root\MSCluster	Cluster
Root\MicrosoftNLB	NLB management
Root\webadministration	IIS management
root\StandardCimv2	New classes introduced with Windows 8; drives many of the new modules
root\Hardware ...