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Where Can I Find References of the WMI Namespace?

‘root\CIMV2’ is the only WMI namespace that I'm aware of. I'm trying to pull the BIOS version from the 'win32_BIOS' class. Do I use this same namespace?

Also, does anyone know where can I find more about the different WMI namespace? I tried the MSDN library but didn’t have much luck.

Contributed By: Mike Betts [MVP MOM]
I would suggest the WMI object browser which covers all the management namespaces. You can download it from:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/default.htm?p=/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/SDKInfo.htm

And there is a version attribute of Win32_Bios so you’re sorted really.

You might also want to check out the Getting Management Information from an Existing Application article which is part of the WMI Platform SDK, which you can also download from the URL at the beginning of this article.