May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
13h 13m
English
book
VBScript, WMI, and ADSI Unleashed: Using VBScript, WMI, and ADSI to Automate Windows® Administration
by Don Jones
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Chapter 19. Querying Complex WMI Information
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Understanding WMI Relationships
- Associating WMI Instances
- Writing the Query
- Testing the Query
- Writing the Query in VBScript
- Another Example
In the previous chapter, I briefly described how some Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes have complex interrelationships with other classes, and promised to show you—in this chapter—how to deal with the information contained in those relationships. I even mentioned specific WMI Query Language (WQL) keywords, including REFERENCES OF and ASSOCIATORS OF—that are used to query these complex classes. Now it’s time to dive in and put them to work.
Understanding WMI Relationships
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