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Title: Developing WMI Solutions: A Guide to Windows Management Instrumentation
by Craig Tunstall, Gwyn Cole
ISBN: 0-201-61613-0
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $54.99
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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

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Rating: 4
Summary: Best WMI Book Yet
Comment: Perhaps the best WMI book currently available. Includes source code for all samples.

Rating: 5
Summary: At last! Something for overworked sysadmins
Comment: A significant component of the Total Cost of Ownership of a network of personal computers is due to the myriad different pieces of hardware and software that these can contain; invariably from a slew of vendors. Integrating and managing the totality can be quite labour intensive for the systems administrator. Also too for the developer; whether she is writing the interface for a piece of software that others will use or if she is on the other side, and has to write code that runs that package and others.

Accordingly, Microsoft has pushed forward Windows Management Instrumentation. The book describes how to use WMI straightforwardly. You do need to know C++, COM and Active Template Library. No surprise there. Several sections also describe using the still new C# and .NET to write OO applications that easily connect to WMI. If you have not used C# and .NET, the book's coverage is concise enough to get you started. The authors treat a minimal subset that is enough for you to do useful work vis-a-vis WMI.

On the scripting aspect, the authors rightly give this careful coverage. Scripting files may not have the sexy appeal of a GUI-driven methodology. But in fact, for automated systems administration of many machines, they are usually far more important. Veterans of DOS and Unix batch file writing will see much of familiar approaches here.

Part of Microsoft's incentive for promoting WMI is to help it stay ahead of linux. The basic functionality of a browser and Microsoft Office are already in various linux applications. So at least in the network sphere, WMI helps Microsoft hold off linux. The authors do not discuss this, but if you read this book, you should keep it in mind; in the broader context of where the PC market is going.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great book for learning about WMI implementations
Comment: Book provides a great introduction into WMI and how to create WMI programs. Code sample are pertinent and easy to understand. Great as a learning tool and a reference manual.

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