RE: RFC: WMI Enhancements

[Mario.Limonciello]

(Responding as plain text, your email probably got punted from the ML from being HTML)

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> I'm not sure what you are asking about. Samba does not deal with WMI at all. The state of affairs is 
> explained at https://powershell.org/2015/04/24/management-information-the-omicimwmimidmtf-dictionary/ 
> -- old WMI (DCOM/RPC-based) is deprecated, new WMI based on WS-MAN is supported and OMI is the 
> implementation. We used to have a very limited attemt at writing DCOM stack and nobody worked on
> it for years so it got removed.

Thanks!  That was a very interesting read.

> Microsoft has already published a MOF parser as part of OMI work: https://github.com/Microsoft/omi/ 
> under MIT license.

Unfortunately that's expecting text MOF, not this intermediary compiled format.