Scripting using Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (MOC 2439)

Course overview

The goal of this course is to teach Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system administrators how to develop Microsoft Visual Basic Script-based scripts that use the resources of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Administrators will use these scripts to perform a number of common tasks in the Microsoft Windows operating system environment.

Prerequisites

Completed Course U8832S (MOC 2433), Microsoft Visual Basic, Scripting Edition and Microsoft Windows Script Host essentials or equivalent experience.

Audience

This course is intended for Windows 2000 systems administrators who need to learn how to develop administrative scripts for their enterprise networks. In addition, this course benefits anyone who wants to learn about Windows Management Instrumentation.

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Benefits to you

• Describe Windows Management Instrumentation and the Common Information Model (CIM)
• Use the WMI Software Developer Kit (SDK) Tools CIM Studio, WMI Event Registration, and WMI Event Viewer
• Use the SDK documentation to research WMI classes
• Describe the WMI Scripting API
• Develop scripts that make local or remote connections to any WMI resources
• Develop scripts that can efficiently query management data from local or remote resources
• Develop scripts that can write to WMI local or remote resources.
• Describe the WMI event architecture
• Develop scripts that can configure, monitor, and implement WMI events
• Identify how they can apply WMI Scripting API scripts to access future resources that use Windows Management Instrumentation

Course outline

• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• The enterprise management challenge
• WMI overview
• The common information model
• Accessing WMI
• Working with WMI objects
• Connecting to WMI using scripts
• Accessing WMI objects
• Advanced scripting
• Security settings
• Querying WMI
• Enumerating objects
• WMI query language
• Data queries
• Using a universal query script
• Associations and references
• Optimizing queries
• The view provider
• Working with events
• The WMI event architecture
• Scripting for events in WMI
• Using best practices
• The future of WMI
• WMI and Microsoft products
• WMI enhancements in Microsoft Windows XP
• The importance of Microsoft .NET
• Reference