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When Windows 2000 was released, there were 29 WMI providers as part of the operating system installation. With the release of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft included in the platform more than 80 WMI providers. Windows Vista includes 13 new WMI providers, [5] taking the number close to around 100 in all.
WinRM (Windows Remote Management) is Microsoft's implementation of WS-Management in Windows which allows systems to access or exchange management information across a common network. Utilizing scripting objects or the built-in command-line tool, WinRM can be used with any remote computers that may have baseboard management controllers (BMCs) to ...
Windows Management Instrumentation, in Microsoft Windows operating systems, a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model; WMI (window manager), old name for wmii, the Window Manager Improved for the X Window System
Microsoft has developed the WMI technology and has included it in Microsoft Windows. Red Hat ships OpenPegasus as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Oracle has WBEM-Services for the Solaris operating environment [9] Ubuntu ships with an updated CIM instrumentation stack, powered by the latest version of the lightweight CIMOM, SBLIM SFCB.
Microsoft has implemented the WS-Management standard in Windows Remote Management 1.1 (WinRM), [2] available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Using WS-Management (WinRM 2.0), Windows PowerShell 2.0 allows scripts and cmdlets to be invoked on a remote machine or a large set of remote machines.
A new People Near Me service allows for the discovery and management of contacts on the same subnet and uses Windows Contacts to manage and store contact information; the new capabilities allows peers to send application invitations to other peers (ad-hoc collaboration is also supported) without a centralized server.
At boot time, a workstation that has been set to boot from PXE will issue a BOOTP request via the network. Once the request is received, the DHCP Server will supply an IP address to the machine, and the DNS server will point the client computer to the RIS server, which in turn will issue a disc boot image (often called the "OS Chooser").
Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language (WQL) is Microsoft's implementation of the CIM Query Language (CQL), a query language for the Common Information Model (CIM) standard from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). It is a subset of ANSI standard SQL with minor semantic changes. [1]