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Win32 schema: A Microsoft extension to the CIM schema that contains definitions of classes and instances to represent managed objects that exist in a typical Windows environment.
Windows Management Infrastructure (MI): Windows Management Infrastructure (MI) is a CIM server that implements the CIM standard on Windows.
WMI Control: A Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that enables a user to configure WMI settings on a local or remote computer.
WMI for Windows Driver Model (WDM): A low-level component that provides access between WMI and hardware devices.
WMI ODBC Adapter: An interface that enables an application to get information from Windows Management using WMI Query Language. This provides a standard API that allows ODBC-based applications to use the data in the CIM repository as if it were a database.
WMI Query Language (WQL): A subset of structured query language (SQL) with extensions to support WMI event notification and other WMI-specific features.
WMI method: A method implemented by the WMI COM API or the Scripting API. Two examples are the COM method IWbemServices::ExecMethod and the similar scripting API method SWbemServices.ExecMethod.
WMI repository: A central storage area managed by the CIM Object Manager.
WQL: See WMI Query Language (WQL).

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