Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Summary

This chapter began with a discussion of Windows Event Logs, demonstrating how WMI can be used to find out about the logs on a given workstation or server and to perform basic housekeeping operations on them. It then introduced WMIBook.SimpleReport , a Windows script component designed to help convert WMI output into neat HTML reports. More |important than the component itself was the concept it represented: the idea that WMI and VBScript can be used as an extremely powerful, self-contained reporting tool. Another, very different kind of report was presented in the second section of the chapter, which showed how the Windows Installer Provider could be used to compile a report of all the software lurking on machines across a network. Finally, ...