December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
197 pages
3h 50m
English
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Chapter 7. WMI Reference
The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) facilities in Windows offer thousands of classes that provide information of interest to administrators. Table 7-1 lists the categories and subcategories covered by WMI and can be used to get a general idea of the scope of WMI classes. Table 7-2 provides a selected subset of the most useful WMI classes. For more information about a category, search the official WMI documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com.
Table 7-1. WMI class categories and subcategories
Category | Subcategory |
Computer system hardware | Cooling device, input device, mass storage, motherboard, controller and port, networking device, power, printing, telephony, video, and monitor |
Operating system | COM, desktop, drivers, filesystem, job objects, memory and page files, multimedia audio/visual, networking, operating system events, operating system settings, processes, registry, scheduler jobs, security, services, shares, Start menu, storage, users, Windows NT event log, Windows product activation |
WMI Service Management | WMI configuration, WMI management |
General | Installed applications, performance counter, security descriptor |
Table 7-2. Selected WMI classes
Class | Description |
| Represents a baseboard, which is also known as a motherboard or system board. |
| Represents the attributes of the computer system’s basic input/output services (BIOS) that are installed on a computer. |
| Represents the boot configuration of a Windows ... |
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