WMI Help, please

[NETWizz]

Here is the deal... I am the Coordinator for Network Services for an organization with about 8,000 computers. Anyway, in my area I am responsible for roughly 1,200 computers directly... (we also provide support for about 800 not in our area or under our jurisdiction)... <== Long story.

Anyway, I have 5 machines that won't scan with Lansweeper (out of 1191 that do)... and apparently 1193 in the OU's in Active Directory (who's counting???)).

I have tried fixing WMI on one of them; since, that is the problem. They are NOT firewalled with the Windows Firewall (it is disabled via Group Policy), the Symantec End-Point Protection AV is providing only AV & AntiMalware, the software on them should be:

ALL Windows Updates
All Features other than that Bing Desktop Search Crap & Windows Live Fluff...
Cd Burner XP (so if someone calls in bitching they can't burn a CD)
VLC (Only for DVD playback just in case someone calls)
Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010
Citrix Client
Borland Database Engine <== It is a travesty to need this; I know.
7-Zip (nothing registered, but just in-case a tech sits at the computer)
Adobe Reader X.x (Pushed out and configured via a Transform)
Flash (possible)
Google Chrome for Business (Pushed out and locked down with policy)
ConfigMgr Client
KBOX Agent
Java (possible)
Shadow Copy Client
User Profile Hive Cleanup
Group Policy Preferences Client
Windows Rights Management stuff




Anyway, the WMI permissions were checked, our IPSEC polices are NOT blocking it to 1191 computers nor these.


Any ideas what is going on and how to fix it? I ran some silly Microsoft C-Script which oppened a dozen command prompt windows and ended up doing nothing but setting cscript to be the default handler for VB Script instead of wscript.

I tried re-building the repositories and a couple of other fixes from Microsoft, but none of them seem to fix the problem. Obviously, this badly breaks VBS scripts, Power Shell scripts, Inventory, GPO Deployment WMI filters, etc... for these computers.


Is there some magic fix??? If there is a magic utility - great. If not, I am going to tell the guys to Bast them with Windows Deployment Services and move forward.

 

[srdrgz11]

Sounds like u covered a lot already. I had a wmi issue last week and used D7 to repair it but i think it may just automate what you already tried. It's should be worth a shot though.

 

[MobileTechie]

You're far more likely to get useful answers on a Microsoft forum dealing with corporate type IT than here. Almost nobody here does this sort of work.

You wanna know about soldering a mobo or solving a bluescreen this is a good place, you want to discuss Active Directory or whatever, not so.

 

[dbdawn]

Did you stop the WMI service and then delete the %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem\Repository folder? After a restart the files should be recreated.

Have you seen this article yet? http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm