Chapter 18: CDO for Exchange Management and Windows Management Instrumentation
Overview
Chapter 15) makes heavy use of CDOEXM in its setup program to figure out what sort of server you are running on and to allow you to create new storage groups, folder hierarchies, and folder databases. Chapter 20 how to use that control as well as other controls included with OWA.

Figure 18-1: The Web page in the Training application setup program that allows you to create new locations to install the application
In addition to using CDOEXM to manage your Exchange infrastructure, you can also use the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers that ship with Exchange. WMI is the Microsoft implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), which is an industry initiative to develop a standard technology for accessing management information in an enterprise environment. WMI uses the Common Information Model (CIM) industry standard to represent systems, applications, networks, devices, and other managed components.