WMI Control Overview
Applies To: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Control is a tool that enables you to configure WMI settings on a remote or local computer. Using WMI Control, you can perform the following tasks:
You can configure the WMI Control to back up your WMI repository on a regular schedule, or you can back up the repository manually at any time. The repository is the database of objects you can access through WMI. You can also restore a previous version of the repository.
See Backup or restore WMI repository
You can change the default namespace that is targeted in WMI scripts.
See Change WMI scripting settings
You can authorize a user or group to access WMI. For each user or group you authorize, you can set their permission level for specific namespaces.
See:
For more information on WMI, see WMI Overview
For information about using the command-line interface of WMI, view the command-line usage of Windows Management Instrumentation Control Command-line (Wmic.exe) by running wmic.exe -? at a command prompt.