WMI tools
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is rooted in Configuration Manager and the product has been using WMI since its early days when Configuration Manager was previously known as System Management Server (SMS). WMI was introduced in SMS 2.0 and has been used in the product for client and server functions in every version since. For this very reason, it is highly likely that we will need to take a look at WMI at some point on our troubleshooting journey. So with this in mind, it's important that we learn to use one of the various tools available to us. A simple example of WMI usage in Configuration Manager would be collection membership query rules that are made from WMI Query Language (WQL), which is a similar syntax to SQL. Effectively, ...
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