Tag Archives: WMI

Semisynchronous WMI

Experimenting with querying WMI from Perl with Win32::OLE, I ran across the following WMI query options in an Perl example from Microsoft’s Script Center: After some digging, I found the following explanation of those options wbemFlagReturnImmediately, and wbemFlagForwardOnly: Because WMI manages the object, semisynchronous mode is more secure than asynchronous mode. However, if you use [...]