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to diagnose and upgrade a remote system while the user of that system continues
working on other tasks. It also allows software upgrades in the background or
during scheduled hours.
WMI
Abbreviation for Windows Management Instrumentation which is a set of
extensions to the Windows Driver Model that 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 Microsoft Windows
personal computers and servers, both locally and remotely.
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