NetFrameworkv1 WMI Provider?

I was pleased to discover you can use WMI to configure your machine.config and web.config files. This appealed to me as someone has been burnt changing their machine.config file in the past. That is until I found out it doesn’t work on the 1.1 framework. According to this posting they’re phasing out the WMI provider. Does anyone know if it is being replaced with anything? What is the current best practice for programmatically changing your machine.config?

From: Andy Cheung [MSFT] (hangc@online.microsoft.com)
Subject: Re: new namespace for v1.1?

 
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Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win32.programmer.wmi
Date: 2003-07-16 14:17:54 PST 
This namespace and the WMI Configuration Provider are removed starting from
.NET Framework v1.1 Redist as part of our effort to phase out this provider
for various reasons. If you have .NET Framework v1.0 installed side-by-side,
you can still connect to root\NetFramework namespace using System.Management
in .NET Framework v1.1. However, you can only use the root\NETFrameworkv1
namespace to access configuration information specific to .NET Framework
v1.0.

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Andy Cheung
Microsoft WMI Test Engineer
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