Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
WMI Control
WMI Control has also been moved under the Services and Applications container. Introduced in 2008 R2, this is a tool that enables administrators to maintain the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) configuration on the server. Interestingly, the tool is not an integrated snap-in, but rather a separate tool which is accessed via the properties of the WMI Control object.
With the WMI Control tool, an administrator can do the following:
• View general information about the server
• Back up and restore the WMI repository
• Change the default scripting namespace (root\cimv2)
• Manage access to the WMI via the Security tab
Before the introduction of the WMI Control tool, these tasks were difficult to accomplish.
For example, to back ...
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