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Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 1
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Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 1

by David A. Solomon Mark E. Russinovich and Alex Ionescu
March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
31h 4m
English
Microsoft Press
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Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), a standard that the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF—an industry consortium) defines. The WBEM standard encompasses the design of an extensible enterprise data-collection and data-management facility that has the flexibility and extensibility required to manage local and remote systems that comprise arbitrary components.

WMI Architecture

WMI consists of four main components, as shown in Figure 4-18: management applications, WMI infrastructure, providers, and managed objects. Management applications are Windows applications that access and display or process data about managed objects. A simple example ...

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