Using the IIS WMI Provider

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a technology that allows Windows administrators to manage and configure IIS programmatically using the IIS WMI provider. The IIS WMI provider exposes programming interfaces that can be used to query and configure the IIS metabase.

This section includes the following topics:

• About the IIS WMI Provider: Describes WMI technology, the IIS WMI provider, and how to use the IIS WMI provider for administration tasks.
• IIS WMI Provider Object Hierarchy: Describes the WMI schema and how classes and instances correspond to the IIS metabase schema.
• IIS WMI Provider Tutorial: Describes how to use the IIS WMI provider for metabase management tasks and provides WMI scripting examples.