1. Ed Kisinger MCAD, MCSD, MCDBA /.Net Senior Consultant 6 Years Professional Development experience Microsoft Team System Groupie Blog: http://www.edsquared.com Email: ekisinger@gmail.com

2. About Sogeti USA, LLC Multi-national, premier provider of IT services 35+ years of global expertise delivered to clients locally Wholly-owned subsidiary of Capgemini SA Innovators with a sophisticated command of business and technology Strong project management expertise – 130+ PMPs and growing Helps clients to implement practical IT solutions to achieve business results

3. WMI Is Not a 4 letter word! $#&%

4. What is WMI A Management Infrastructure Components: A Service Description of things you can manage A Storage place for those things Worker code that does the managing A scripting library Windows Management Instrumentation

5. WMI Architecture

6. Why WMI Provides a consistent approach to management task within the windows environment. Many application expose WMI (i.e. BizTalk, SQLServer)

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