An great 15 page overview of WMI and WMI Scripting:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974579.aspx
The Scriptomatic is a great tool for automatically creating the generic framing for a WMI script. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/wmimatic.mspx
tags: automate, registry, wscript, vbscript, jscript