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"Craig and Gwyn bring their insight and experience with WMI to explain how easy it is to write powerful management applications through WMI on the .NET platform."

--Andy Cheung, Microsoft WMI Test Engineer

 

 

Introduction

Welcome to our website.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an impressive technology. WMI provides, for the first time, an integrated approach to hardware and software management for the Windows operating system. Developing WMI Solutions provides administrators and developers with the skills necessary to take advantage of the power of WMI with Windows 2000, XP, and .NET Server.

News
 
 
29.06.03

Released the .NET Event Tracing Class Library, C++ Event Tracing libraries and an update of the Event Tracing Walker application. Click here for more details.
 

16.05.03

New article available entitled, 'SNMP vs. WBEM'. Discusses the pro's and con's of SNMP and WBEM and the future of systems management. Click here.
 

12.05.03

New documentation and code samples available for writing .NET management applications with Visual Basic .NET available here.
 

28.04.03

Gwyn Cole has launched a new website http://www.gwyncole.com/ containing his personal and professional take on WMI and the World at large!
 

06.04.03

New article about the practical applications of event tracing can be found online here
 

30.01.03

Check out these original code samples and  documentation:

30.01.03

New articles are available online here.

 
Excerpts from Chapters 4 & 7 can be found here.

Chapter 4 - A Guided Tour of the CIM
Chapter 7 - Writing Management Applications

[All documentation is provided in PDF format]





 

 
  ISBN 0-201-61613-0
   
  o An Overview
o The Table of Contents
   
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Code samples from the book
Original articles on WMI for both administrators and developers
Room 101: A place dedicated to the pifalls of systems management!
Links to WMI related sites
 
 

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