WMI problems after installation of SP2 on Windows XP

[Tim Gorgs]

Hi all,

after I've installed the (FINAL) SP2 for Windows XP it seems that
there are problems with querying information from WMI. All properties
that were filled before seem to be empty now.

Even if I don't use my own program to query these values, I still get
empty fields (e.g.: msinfo32 returns almost nothing).

Anybody who can help me with that? Thanks in advance,

Tim

 

[Joey E.]

Read the release docs that went out with SP2. There is some
information about RPC and TCP port changes that affect WMI. I would
be more specific but I just stumbled across this myself and am looking
into it... Good luck!!!

 

[levitation30]

Hi all,

after I've installed the (FINAL) SP2 for Windows XP it seems that
there are problems with querying information from WMI. All properties
that were filled before seem to be empty now.

Even if I don't use my own program to query these values, I still get
empty fields (e.g.: msinfo32 returns almost nothing).

Anybody who can help me with that? Thanks in advance,

Tim

Did you check if the WMI service is still running? Do you know if it
was running okay before the SP2 install? (I suppose yes)

Can you check the windows firewall settings under My Network Places,
View Network Connectins, Change Windows Firewall Settings?
Can you click on Advanced on the Windows Firewall window that comes up
and see stuff?

This will tell you if the wmi is working for this stuff.
Also check the Advanced properties tab on your LAN connection (right click,
selected Properties, then Advanced tab)

 

[David Holcomb]

Try running this command on your XP SP2 machine and see if it works:

netsh firewall set service type=remoteadmin mode=enable scope=all profile=all

 

[dwos]

Been looking for this info all day on the MS site. This is great. So far
the SP2 testing is anything but fun.

THX