Chapter 9. WMI Continued

In this chapter, you’ll continue working with WMI. You’ll build upon the concepts learned in Chapter 8 and see different ways to leverage your investment in WMI to assist in day-to-day network administrative tasks.

Before You Begin

To work through the material presented in this chapter, you need to be familiar with the following concepts from earlier chapters:

  • Connecting to the default WMI namespace

  • Accessing properties of dynamic WMI classes

  • Implementing the For...Next construction

  • Implementing a WMI query

After completing this chapter you will be familiar with the following:

  • Alternative ways of configuring the WMI moniker

  • Querying WMI

  • Setting impersonation levels

  • Defining the WMI object path

  • Navigating the WMI namespace

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