The WMI Model

¤The WMI model has three layers:

The lowest layer in the WMI model is managed resource. Windows resources that can be managed using WMI include event logs, services, processes, environment variables, registry settings, networking omponents and many more.The middle layer is the WMI infrastructure.The top layer in theWMI model is WMI consumer.

 

¤To queriy the namespaces at the root level:

Get-WmiObject -class __Namespace -namespace root | Select-Object Name

 

¤The root\CIMV2 namespace is the default namespace for the Get-WmiObject cmdlet. The root\CIMV2 namespace contains the core Windows OS classes. You can retrieve a list of classes under root\CIMV2 using this command:
Get-WmiObject –list