Win32 Perl: Introduction to Perl & WMI

By Dirk De Nijs (‎ddn123456‎) from Vlaanderen.pm, Brussels.pm
Date: Friday, 16 November 2007 11:35
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: win32 wmi


This talk intends to be an indepth introduction to Perl making use of WMI, WMI as a whole and practical day to day Perl-WMI HowTo's.

What is WMI?

"Windows Management Instrumentation is a core Windows management technology; you can use WMI to manage both local and remote computers. WMI provides a consistent approach to carrying out day-to-day management tasks with programming or scripting languages."*

*(Quote "http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/wmifaq.mspx")