Lots of computers with corrupted WMI...

[Guest]

Hi,

Each time i try to access wmi controls properties in the manage page, i get
the message :
Unable to connect to local computer
error : WMI Access denied
And so i can't access the security tab to make anything...
Any idea on what can cause such things on several computers and how to
repair it ?

Thanks in advance

 

[James Crosswell]

Hi,

Each time i try to access wmi controls properties in the manage page, i get
the message :
Unable to connect to local computer
error : WMI Access denied
And so i can't access the security tab to make anything...
Any idea on what can cause such things on several computers and how to
repair it ?

Can you run msinfo32.exe? Do you get errors when you run this? If not,
then there's probably nothing wrong with WMI (since this program makes
use of WMI itself, quite extensively)... in which case, most likely YOU
don't have access to WMI (perhaps because you're not a local/domain
admin on the machine concerned.

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Best Regards,

James Crosswell
Software Engineer
Microforge.net Limited
http://www.microforge.net

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your answer
I can run msinfo32 and it seems that i'm getting no errors. And i allways
use an account member of the domain admins group of my company...
In fact, the error i have is mostly in the event viewer (error 1090 in
userenv). I already checked on eventid.net and it seems that the problem come
from the WMI that would be corrupted. And the other symptom i already
describe seems to reveal the same problem...
I tried a lot of solutions (autorecover of the repository, manual recover of
the repository, recompilation of the mofs...) and i've never found one that
could repair my problem. I also tried to copy the repository from a "clean"
machine to one that have the problem and it didn't solve my problem...

 

[Scott McNairy \(MVP\)]

Please see the following links to see if you can isolate and possibly
rebuild the WMI repository as a last resort.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/wmifaq.mspx#EIAA
and
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/wmifaq.mspx#EHAA

 

[Guest]

Hello. I am having the same issue with WMI that Laurent is having. I tried
running the msinfo.exe and am getting the error "Can't collect information -
Cannot access the Windows Management Instrumentation software. Windows
Management files may be moved or missing.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Shannon O'Neill