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Debugging (Tracing) WMI queries?

I've got a third-party program that's making WMI queries to local WMI providers (so it's not using DCOM, so packet-sniffers are out). I'd like to find out what queries these are. It's also on XP, so the new Vista WMI tracing infrastructure is out, as well, unfortunately. Any pointers? ...

Possible to access WMI through ADO?

Is there an OLEDB provider for WMI/WBEM? In other words, could someone access WMI through: ADO in shell vbscript ADO in ASP script ADO in Win32 native process SQL Server linked server SQL Server OPENROWSET() Is there an OLEDB provider for WMI/WBEM? Is it possible to access WMI through ADO? i hear rumors that an ODBC driver exist...

WBEM/CIM calls to fetch linux OS information

I am trying to get operating system information , is it possible to get through WBEM or CIM client APIs for linux system? ...

How to get a count of ManagementObjects (WMI results) without enumerating through the collection in .NET

When querying for large ammount of data through WMI (say the windows events log Win32_NTLogEvent) it is very useful to know what kind of numbers you are getting yourself into before downloading all the content. Is there a way two do this? From what i know there is no "Select Count(*) FROM Win32_NTLogEvent" in WQL. From what i know the ...

How can I restore default trustees to Windows XP SP3, to make WMI happy?

Sorry if this question is a little off topic, but I noticed people are discussing WMI here and thought that maybe this as good a forum as any, and better than most. I wanted to configure a port for my SQL Server, and it turned out that my mis-configured or corrupt WMI installation is creating an obstacle. I've tried numerous things to ...