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Modifying WMI Settings By Using Windows Management Instrumentation Tester (wbemtest)

Topic Last Modified: 2009-02-19

You can use Windows Management Instrumentation Tester (wbemtest), which ships with the Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, to modify WMI settings for the Address Book Server.

To use wbemtest to modify WMI settings

  1. Log on to the server running the Address Book service as a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group or an account with equivalent user rights.

  2. Click Start, and then click Run.

  3. In the Open box, type wbemtest.

  4. In the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester dialog box, click Connect.

  5. In the Connect dialog box, type root\cimv2 in the Namespace box.

  6. Click Connect.

  7. Click Open Instance.

  8. In the Get Object Path box, type MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting, and then click OK.

  9. In the Object Editor for MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting dialog box, click Instances.

  10. Double-click MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting=@.

  11. Edit the properties that you want to modify.

  12. Close the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester dialog box.

  13. To verify that the change was applied, open Event Viewer, and then look for Office Communications Server event ID 21057.