This is an example of retrieving WMIC results using the xp_cmdshell proc, and inserting the results into a table.Specifically, this script retrieves disk info from the LogicalDisk class, but WMIC provides thousands of other properties. WMIC does require it be ran from a Windows 2003 server, but can query other Windows 2000 servers when executed […]
2006-08-04 (first published: 2006-07-02)
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