Summary
In this chapter, you looked at WMI on Windows Server 2003. You learned about the concept of the namespace and examined several of the default namespaces available in a default installation of Windows Server 2003. In addition, you looked at the concept of classes and how they are utilized within WMI. You examined the concept of providers and saw how they are used to enable WMI to access various parts of the information contained within the different namespaces. You learned about querying WMI and about the use of monikers to abstract some of the complexity of connecting to WMI.
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