WMI, IIS, CIM and other cursewords

Finally, after hours of reading through mind-numbingly overcomplicated documentation about the incredible plural architectures for Windows system management (not that I wanted to know any of that, mind you) and their various benighted APIs and tools ...

I present, the answer, or at least the kernel of one:
( arcane invocations within )

ref: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524913.aspx