Summary
This chapter opened by considering how classes and objects come to “live” in the Repository. It discussed MOF, the language used to create class and instance definitions, and introduced two tools designed to examine them. It also discussed system properties and qualifiers, features common to all WMI objects. Finally, it investigated in more detail the various COM objects that make up the WMI scripting API and showed how they fit together into a coherent framework.
Currently, Windows XP, the successor to Windows 2000, is in public beta. The WMI system in this new operating system does not look dramatically different from that of Windows 2000. All the information contained within this book in general, and this chapter in particular, will ...
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