If you’re still using Windows Management Instrumentation Command line (WMIC), you’ll start seeing changes this year. While it has been deprecated for a while, you could still use it as a feature on demand (FoD). Starting January 29th, 2024, it will become “disabled by default” in the insider build of Windows 11. It will become part of the next Windows 11 release later in 2024. To find out more, read WMI command-line (WMIC) utility deprecation: Next steps.

 

 

If your application is dependent on WMIC, you should start migrating away from it. The WMIC tool is superseded by PowerShell as a more efficient way of querying WMI. While WMIC will still be available as FoD, it will be disabled by default for some time before it is completely removed.

 

Please migrate away from WMIC with the help of WMI command-line (WMIC) utility deprecation: Next steps. You can use PowerShell or programmatically query WMI instead.