Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Accessing WMI from VBScript

If you have read and understood the entirety of the previous section, you know pretty much all you need to know about the basics of the VBScript language. You know how to write syntactically correct code, and you have an idea of what is good style and what is bad. You could not really claim to be a VBScript expert at this stage (unless, of course, you already were before you started reading this book), because there are several language features that we haven’t yet mentioned, as well as some subtleties to learn about the ones we have! However, you certainly know almost enough to start making use of VBScript to write administration scripts. The one thing missing is knowledge of how VBScript can interact with Windows ...