System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed

Additional Client Operations Through WMI

The ConfigMgr client creates WMI classes to represent its own components and configuration. The root of the ConfigMgr client namespace hierarchy is Root\CCM. The Root\CCM namespace contains classes representing client properties, such as identity and version information, installation options, and site information. Two of the classes in this namespace expose much of the functionality available through the Configuration Management Control Panel applet:

• The SMS_Client WMI class provides methods, displayed in Figure 3.25, that implement client operations such as site assignment, policy retrieval, and client repair.

Figure 3.25. The SMS_Client class with the Methods tab displayed in CIM Studio.

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