is wmic deprecated?

Question

I was reading thru this article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/deprecated-features which says wmic is deprecated. Does that mean we cannot use wmic commands in windows command prompt anymore? If yes, kindly suggest an alternative as we have a limitation to not use powershell as its replacement. Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi,
Indeed, the wmic command utility is being deprecated, meaning that it will no longer be further developed or updated, but still it will be working as long as the underlying system will continue to support it, no worries there.
Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/wmic

The supported replacement for it would be CIM as stated here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/ps101/07-working-with-wmi?view=powershell-7.3