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Bulk Insert WMIC output to table w/ xp_cmdshell

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 […]

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2006-08-04 (first published: )

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