Scripting API for WMI
The WMI scripting reference contains definitions for the WMI Scripting API. Use this API if writing applications with Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), or any other scripting language that supports active scripting technologies.
WMI scripting objects, except for SWbemDateTime are not marked safe for scripting for scripts running on HTML pages in Internet Explorer. Therefore, unless the security level within Internet Explorer is lowered, the script will fail. SWbemDateTime is marked safe for initialization and scripting. However, use all WMI scripting objects in GetObject and CreateObject calls on server-side code in Active Server Pages (ASP).
- Scripting API Object Model
- Document Conventions for the Scripting API
- Scripting API Objects
- Scripting API Constants
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In addition to the above, you can also use PowerShell to access WMI. The Get-WMI cmdlet and the three type accelerators ([wmi], [wmiclass], and [wmisearcher]) enable basic administrative access to WMI.
Additional WMI features are added in PowerShell V2, currently in beta testing. V2 CTP3 was released late 2008 and will be released along with Windows 7 sometime in 2009.
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