Windows Management Instrumentation
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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) consists of a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through which instrumented components provide information and notification. WMI is Microsoft's implementation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and Common Information Model (CIM) standards from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).
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Original author(s) | Microsoft |
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Developer(s) | Microsoft |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Platform | IA-32, x86-64, and ARM (historically Itanium, DEC Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC) |
Type | Systems management |
License | Proprietary |
Website | learn |
WMI allows scripting languages (such as VBScript or Windows' PowerShell) to manage Microsoft Windows personal computers and servers, both locally and remotely. WMI comes preinstalled in Windows 2000 through Windows 11 OSes. It is available as a download for Windows NT and[1] Windows 95 to Windows 98.[2]
Microsoft also provides a command-line interface to WMI called Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC).[3] However, WMIC is deprecated starting with Windows 10, version 21H1, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022.[4]