Re: Checking for WMI

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Hi,

In general you don't need to do this. However you may want to send a single ping packet to the remote machine before you call into the WMI locater otherwise it could take 20 seconds for RPC to time-out!

Sandhya M wrote:
Hi,

I need to use WMI on Windows XP and Win2K and Windows 2003 platfroms. Do I need
to ensure WMI is running before accessing WMI ? In other words is WMI installed and running
by default on these platfroms ?

Thanks and regards




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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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