7. Windows Management Instrumentation
In This Chapter
• This chapter shows how to use WMI to manage computers over a network.
• WMI can do something as simple as shutting down a computer or as complex as documenting its every setting.
• You cannot remotely manage Windows XP Home Edition with WMI scripts.
• This is hairy stuff. You should be familiar with the material in Chapter 3, “Scripting and Objects,” and Chapter 4, “File and Registry Access,” before reading this chapter.
• You might have run into the acronyms WBEM and CIM. This chapter discusses these as well.
Introduction to Windows Management Instrumentation
If you own even just one Windows computer, you know that maintenance can be a frustrating, time-consuming job. Multiply this ...
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