RE: Questions regarding which APIs to use to retrieve network info

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>So, it would appear that unless dnscmd uses WMI
>that there should be a programmatic way to get at this information on both
>Win2000 and Win2003 and that's ultimately what I'm looking for here.
No, it does not use WMI but some some undocumented APIs for this
information.
Currently WMI is only supported and recommended way for this information.


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