The following table categorizes the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 WMI Classes by the scopes within which the classes can be used to manage a deployment, and also indicates the roles of the computers on which each class is installed.
WMI Class Management Scopes and Installed on Roles
Global
(stored in Active Directory)
Pool
(stored in SQL)
Pool and Machine
(stored in SQL and WMI)
See Remarks
Machine
(stored in WMI)
User
(stored in USERDCOM)
Remarks
For classes that are marked TRUE for Singleton in the previous table:
For classes that are marked "*" for Singleton, multiple instances are permitted.
For classes belonging to the Management Scope category labeled "Pool or Machine" in the previous table, refer to the following table to determine whether the scope of the WMI class is Pool or Machine.
The following table shows the roles that correspond to the abbreviations in the Installed on columns of the previous table. The following table also shows the WMI class scope for classes that can be either "Pool" or "Machine" depending on the role of the server on which they are installed.
Abbreviations and Role-dependent Scoping