With this release, Exchange expands on the interfaces used to monitor and manage Exchange components and processes, mainly through the expansion of classes and interfaces available in the WMI providers for Exchange. You can use the WMI providers for Exchange to create simple monitoring applications using scripting languages such as VBScript or by using any COM-compliant language. The WMI classes and interfaces provided with the Exchange Server 2000 SDK were primarily used for monitoring Exchange servers and components. With Exchange Server 2003 SDK, many new WMI classes are provided to manage Exchange servers and components. Following is a list of these new classes:
FOR MORE INFORMATION For more information about functionality, properties, methods, and events related to these classes, check out the help file provided with the Exchange Server 2003 SDK and search for the phrase WMI Changes. In addition to the new classes added to the WMI interface, the Exchange_MessageTrackingEntry class was updated to make message tracking easier from custom applications. MESSAGE TRACKING SCHEMA You can look at a sample of the XML schema produced by this tracking functionality by searching the SDK help file for the topic Message Tracking File XML Schema. MANAGING EXCHANGE WITH VBSCRIPT AND WMI If you're into writing VBScript, you'll find that the new WMI classes offer a great way to script Exchange administration. If you're interested in learning more about VBScript and WMI from an administrative perspective, check out http://www.adminscripting.com. |