Windows Management Instrumentation
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Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI, is a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model. WMI provides an operating system interface through which instrumented components can provide information and notification. WMI is Microsoft's implementation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Standard from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).
WMI allows scripting languages like VBScript to manage Windows PCs and servers, both locally and remotely.