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Managing Reports using WMI Providers:Windows Server 2008 also provides support for managing Per User usage reports using WMIproviders. Now, an administrator can write a simple script to generate a usage report for agiven scope. Within the script, he can take further action based on the reports. For example, ifthe number of issued licenses exceeds the number of installed licenses, the script can send ane-mail to the administrator.Reports generated using WMI are displayed in the TS Licensing Manager, and reports deletedusing WMI are also deleted from the TS Licensing Manager.The following WMI classes are used to generate reports.Win32_TSLicenseReport:Windows Server 2008 has a WMI class named "Win32_TSLicenseReport" for managing per userlicense reports.This WMI class provides three different interfaces to manage reports:i. GenerateReport: This interface is used for generating per user license usage reports. Reportscan be generated across three different scopes as discussed above. This is a static function.The syntax of the API isuint32 GenerateReport ( [in] uint32 ScopeType,[in] string ScopeValue,[out] string FileName);WhereScopeType: Defines the scope for which the report needs to be generated1 -> Domain2 -> Organizational Unit (OU)3 -> All trusted DomainsScopeValue: This is used only when ScopeType is "Organizational Unit (OU)",It should contain the name of the OU for which you want to generate the report in the format"OU=OUName"9 | P a g e