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Friday, March 31, 2006 12:47 AM

Windows Remote Management (WinRM) part 1

Windows Server 2003 Release 2 (WS2003R2) and Windows Vista introduce a new variety of firewall-friendly remote server management, Windows Remote Management (WinRM), an implementation of the Web Services for Management specification. Instead of marshalling
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Friday, September 16, 2005 7:21 AM

WMI part 4 - Implementing a temporary WMI Event consumer in VFP

All the WMI queries so far in this series have been looking at static data, but WMI has a mechanism for checking for changes to local or remote computers and reacting to them: WMI events. Applications can register themselves as event consumers, and receive
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:49 PM

WMI part 3 - Remote Queries

One of the principles of WMI is that everything that can be queried or set locally should be able to be done remotely.WMI makes no distinction between local and remote access ... The difference between a local and a remote connection is that users can
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:12 AM

WMI part 2 - The WMI Registry Provider

IntroductionIf you haven't heard of WMI, you might want to skim my previous article on the subject (it's been updated since it was first posted). The Registry Provider is WMI's mechanism for accessing the system registry. This is what it can do:
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:12 AM

WMI part 1 - Local Queries

Introduction To WMIWMI - Windows Management Instrumentation - is Microsoft's implementation of the WBEM [Web-Based Enterprise Management] standard, and a very powerful tool for administering computers. It was introduced with Windows 2000, but was partially
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