| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | WMI class | WMI-Klasse (A template for a type of managed object. WMI classes define the basic units of management. For example, the Win32_LogicalDisk class is a template for all logical disks that occur in the Windows environment. In this case, WMI uses the class template to generate an instance of Win32_LogicalDisk for each disk installed on a computer) |
| comp., MS | WMI filter | WMI-Filter (A query that is based on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and used to filter the effect of a Group Policy object (GPO). WMI filters are written in WMI Query Language (WQL) and are evaluated on the target computer or user. If the filter evaluates to true, then the GPO is applied. Otherwise, the GPO is not applied. WMI filters are useful for exception management) |
| comp., MS | WMI provider | WMI-Anbieter (In Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), a set of interfaces that provide programmatic access to management information in a system. IIS 7.0 implements a WMI provider in the namespace called WebAdministration to provide programmatic access to configuration and system settings) |
| comp., MS | WMI Query Language | WMI-Abfragesprache, WMI Query Language (A subset of ANSI SQL with semantic changes adapted to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)) |