Windows Management Instrumentation (Wmi)

By Matthew Lavy and Ashley Meggitt

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) tells readers everything they need to know in order to harness the power of WMI to automate vast parts of Windows 2000 workstation and server management. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578702607
• ISBN13: 9781578702602
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

It's a great WMI book for VBscripting admins

The authors do a good job of showing lots of WMI VBscript code examples, and they weave it together with good explanatory prose. Using this book, along with the WMI SDK docs and samples from Microsoft gave me enough info to do some usefull stuff with WMI.

Windows Management Instrumentation

I have been working on de-cyphering the WMI layers for the last couple of months. Microsoft's documentation is lacking to say the least. This book allowed me to get up to speed in a matter of three days!Highly recommend!

Excellent Book

The authors of this book not only show expert knowledge in WMI and scripting, but expert insight on explaining the subject in the best possible way. As a VBScript 'programmer' wanting to learn WMI, I almost broke down in tears when a plethora of helpful info that took me weeks to learn, was explained as tips within the first few chapters. I wish this was the first VBScript book I had read.This book was cleverly put together to provide and excellent book for people new or experienced with VBScript. It contains one chapter of VBScript which you can skip if you like, and tips throughout to explain VB Script specific functions which can be easily skipped if you know VBScript and are only concerned with WMI. I did review the VBScript chapter, and found it the best reading I've seen on the subject. This book together with a VBScript syntax reference (available from microsoft.com) are all you need to learn and apply VBScript, quickly. I also bought WMI essentials (SAMS), which I wont be reading.The New Riders Expert series has come through again. (picture in circle on cover)- Satisfied Customer

Absolutely 5 stars!

I read everything I could find on the subject and STILL didn't know where to start. The authors managed to take it from concept to reality and developed it such that anyone could pick it up. Whether you want to write programs or scripts, or just understand the concepts, This book should become the defacto standard. Great job!

Perfect Administrative Introduction to WMI

For administrators who wish to have a greater control over Windows NT-based networks and were looking for a way to do it without having to learn a million different programming and scripting languages, the WMI is for you - and this is the perfect starting point.Designed and written for system administrators, the focus of this book is to introduce you to the WMI from a VBScript scripting perspective. Regardless of scripting experience, the authors guides the reader in both theory and hands-on scripting from the basics of the VBScript language (a full chapter introducing you to VBScript and scripting in general, which is completely skip-able if you are already familiar with VBScript) to the scripting WMI API, covering a healthy percentage of the WMI objects and their use in easy to understand scripts.The authors have written neither a recipe book of pre-created scripts, nor a true reference-only guide. If you are looking for the 2 minute answer, or are already proficient in the WMI, this isn't for you. Instead, the authors have written a text designed to give you a firm foundation of the WMI and the ability to quickly enhance your environment with no more than what they have provided, while still leaving room for you to confidently continue your learning of the WMI from other sources.This is the second WMI book I've read, and although this one did not come out first, I found it a much better starting point than the others. You do need to make the time investment, and there is as much reading as there are activities, but you will find it well worth your effort.