September 2006
Intermediate to advanced
115 pages
2h 19m
English
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WMI Reference
The Windows Management Instrumentation facilities in Windows offer thousands of classes that provide information of interest to administrators. This appendix lists the subcategories categories covered by WMI, as well as 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.
WMI Class Categories and Subcategories | |
|---|---|
Category | Subcategory |
Computer ystem 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 |
Selected WMI Classes, and Their Uses | |
|---|---|
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 system. |
| Represents a CD-ROM drive on a Windows computer system. Be aware that the name ... |
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