An interface to a backing store that is used to store setting changes made through the other SMI APIs, and provides operations to serialize to and deserialize from a representation.
Describes setting types that are returned from the ISettingsItem::GetSettingType method and defines the object model type for the calling ISettingsItem interface.
This learning path covers Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Common Information Model (CIM). These technologies help to access information about a computer. Additionally, both technologies provide local and remote access to management information from the operating system, computer hardware, and installed software.