Windows Management Instrumentation

Windows Management Instrumentation
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	Same as Microsoft Windows
Website	learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/wmi-start-page

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is 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).

WMI allows scripting languages (such as VBScript or PowerShell) to manage Microsoft Windows personal computers and servers, both locally and remotely. WMI comes preinstalled in Windows 2000 and later. It is available as a download for Windows NT 4.0,^[1] Windows 95, and Windows 98.^[2]

Also included with Windows was Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC), a CLI utility to interface with WMI.^[3] However, starting with Windows 10, version 21H1 and Windows Server 2022, WMIC is deprecated in favor of PowerShell.^[4]

^ "WMI Redistributable for Windows NT". microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ "WMI Redistributable for Windows 95 and Windows 98". microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ "A Description of the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Command-Line Utility (Wmic.exe)". Archived from the original on 2007-05-02.
^ "WMIC: WMI command-line utility". Microsoft. 8 March 2023. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023.

[WMINTDownload-1] "WMI Redistributable for Windows NT". microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

[WMIDownload-2] "WMI Redistributable for Windows 95 and Windows 98". microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

[3] "A Description of the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Command-Line Utility (Wmic.exe)". Archived from the original on 2007-05-02.

[:0-4] "WMIC: WMI command-line utility". Microsoft. 8 March 2023. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023.

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