I can see you resolved the issue, but there is nice utility from Microsoft which is basically a VB Script which checks and suggests corrective actions if problem is found with WMI. You can download it from the following link...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/help/wmidiag.mspx Nice utility I would say, it helped me to resolve many WMI issues in the past.... -- Sincerely, J On 10/12/06, Free, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>can I run something like process explorer or regmon/filemon The enterprise versions of filemon/regmon can be run across the network which is extremely usefull on occasion. One more good reason to drop a few coins on the AdminPack :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murda Mcloud Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [email protected] Subject: RE: Re: security implications of disabling WMI service Okay, I found a hotfix at MS for it http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911262 and have applied it but it did seem to take a few reboots and disabling then re-enabling the service before it worked. Now what I couldn't work out was whether the WMI service needed to be running WHEN the hotfix was applied(does that make sense?) So I found that instead of disabling the service through msconfig I rebooted and then reenabled the service through services.msc and set it to auto and then rebooted and it worked. A question I found myself asking also was can I run something like process explorer or regmon/filemon before logging in? For instance, if a startup script runs before logon, how do I check what files/services are being used/called? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: security implications of disabling WMI service Hello Harlan, Yes, by saying "makes use" I mean to say it's an dependency. "Windows Security Center" & "Windows ICS", both these services depends on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service. If you disable WMI service, then above mentioned Service would fail to start. Nikhil Wagholikar Security Analyst NII Consulting Web: www.niiconsulting.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Sincerely, Jitendra Kalyankar --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
