The WMI Object Browser
As noted at the very start of this chapter, the reporting techniques discussed earlier do not apply only to Event Logs and the Windows Installer but to any system represented within WMI. Creative use of WQL queries, nested sets of collections, and a bit of string concatenation can produce any number of reports. All that is needed is knowledge of the WMI objects available on a system, their properties, their methods, and the associators that join them together. In this, the final section of the chapter, we introduce a tool that you can use to discover exactly what WMI objects are available on a system, and how they are related to each other. This tool is the WMI Object Browser.
The Object Browser is an ActiveX control, ...
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