What is the best way to filter or otherwise manipulate the results returned by a stored procedure?

Often I find myself wanting to filter or order the results returned by execing a stored procedure - for example to order the output of sp_who2 by login or CPU Time, or filter it by host name. What is the best way to achieve this?

One possible solution is to put the result set into a temp table and select from it. Here is an example for sp_who2: SQL Server: Filter output of sp_who2

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