WMI

Hyper-V provides new capabilities through its WMI APIs. Learn how to apply these APIs while creating your own solutions. Nihar Shah My name is Nihar Shah, and I work on the Hyper-V team at Microsoft. I have been working in the virtualization space for 8 years, dating back to my pre-Microsoft…

In this episode, see how you can add WMI and Group Policy support to your applications using the brand new Manageability Extensions CTP. Exposing application configuration via WMI allows WMI-aware management applications to query your application configuration. You can now do it using Enterprise…

Spending more time supporting your old apps and not enough time developing new apps? In this first episode, you will see a typical LOB application, with little thought about operations and management, get a "Design For Operations" make-over, including management modeling,…

"Oughtness"? "Isness"? What?We recently caught up with Anders Vinberg, Architect and one of the leaders of Microsoft's Management infrastructure team (technologies like MOM, WU, etc) and wordsmith(he makes up words to describe complex systems). Also present was Architect Raymond…

We recently caught up with Anders Vinberg, Architect and one of the leaders of Microsoft's Management infrastructure team (technologies like MOM, WU, etc). Also present was Architect Raymond McCollum, who works on things like the new event log mechanism in Windows Vista. Systems management is full…

Alain and his team invited me over to talk about managing Windows with WMI. Windows Management Instrumentation. Sounds boring, right? But it makes Windows manageable. Ever want to do something on thousands of desktops? WMI lets you do it. Hope you enjoy meeting this team and learning about what…