Rem: Using WMIC on Windows 2000

You can use WMIC to manage any WMI-enabled computer, as long as you run WMIC from Windows 2003 or XP.

Bob Wells

November 2, 2003

1 Min Read
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Do you know any tricks for installing the Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool on Windows 2000 computers?

I'm unaware of any such tricks. My understanding is that WMIC has a dependency on components that aren't available in Win2K. You can certainly use WMIC to manage any WMI-enabled computer—you just need to run it from Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP.

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