Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Managing Services with WMI

Windows 2000 services are processes that generally do not interact with a user but instead provide core functionality on which components of the operating system, applications, and users can rely. For example, the Spooler service handles the queuing and scheduling of print jobs and the DNS service on Windows 2000 Server provides DNS services to a domain. Services such as the DNS server and spooler, which perform user-level tasks, are socalled Win32 services; they are written in accordance with specifications laid down by the Service Control Manager, which is the operating system component that controls their behavior. The term service also covers a rather different sort of beast, however, namely device drivers. As ...