The following sections describe various computer and network administration tasks and provide links to the WMI class or classes used to perform those tasks. For more information, see [Creating a WMI ...

Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.

If you’ve followed commonly accepted security policies and procedures, but ignore them and don’t create and utilize WMI scripts using a security model, you leave your system vulnerable to attacks and ...

Security Advisor Securing Remote Management with WMI Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or ...

It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...

In monitoring scripts, you can avoid successive calls to **GetObject** by using an [**SWbemRefresher**](swbemrefresher.md) object. The **SWbemRefresher** object is a container that can hold several ...

I'm looking to do some self learning with vbscript and wmi scripts. If any of you guys know any good online resources (past the MS site) I'd appreciate it.

Symantec's flagship consumer antivirus application contains a vulnerability that can allow certain malicious scripts to pass through without being scanned, according to a security researcher. Dan ...

Windows comes with a tool called the Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI, that can be used by system administrators to receive information and notifications from Windows. Using WMI, an ...