Chapter 18. Querying Basic WMI Information
IN THIS CHAPTER
- The WMI Query Language (WQL)
- Determining What to Query
- Testing the Query
- Writing the Query in VBScript
- Using the Query Results
- Alternative Methods
In the previous chapter, I showed you a standard template-style WMI query that you can modify to query almost anything from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). What I didn’t do is show you exactly how that query works, how you can easily incorporate it into other scripts, and how to utilize the information you retrieve. If you start using WMI examples from the web, you might even notice that different script authors write their WMI queries in completely different ways. There’s nothing wrong with that because WMI is flexible enough ...
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