Possible to access WMI through ADO?

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Question

Is there an OLEDB provider for WMI/WBEM?

In other words, could someone access WMI through:

  • ADO in shell vbscript
  • ADO in ASP script
  • ADO in Win32 native process
  • SQL Server linked server
  • SQL Server OPENROWSET()

Is there an OLEDB provider for WMI/WBEM?

Is it possible to access WMI through ADO?

i hear rumors that an ODBC driver exists for WMI, but i cannot see it installed on my machine. Plus, i'm asking about OLEDB (and ADO that wraps it).

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Solution

The answer is: No

There used to be an ODBC WMI adapter for Windows 2000 Server as an optional installation. (see here). It is not supported on later Windows versions (see here).

OTHER TIPS

It would be too much work to wrap every class in WMI to OLDEB tables. Number of WMI classes exploded in the XP/2003 timeframe. If you are only focusing on certain classes, you can write your own OLEDB provider that calls WMI and returns the data.

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