Implementing permanent WMI eventing

In the Managing WMI events recipe, you used PowerShell's WMI event handling capability and used temporary event handling. The event handlers were active only as long as the PowerShell session was active and a user was logged in to the host. In that recipe, you created an event subscription and handled the events as your system generated them. This temporary event handling is a great troubleshooting tool that works well as long as you are logged in and are running PowerShell.

WMI also provides permanent event handling. You configure WMI to subscribe and handle events as they occur without using an active and open session. With permanent event handling, you configure WMI to subscribe to a specific event, for instance, adding a new member to a high-privilege AD group such as Enterprise Admins. You can also configure WMI to perform a predefined action when that event occurs, such as creating a report or sending an email message to report on...