June 26, 2007
Back in May Microsoft released the same type of fix for Windows 2003 and now it is ready for XP clients. SMS admins understand the pain of WMI corruption as well as anyone, and probably better than most. Getting permission denied errors when it has nothing to do with permissions, trying to diagnose client issues remotely when WMI is not reporting the correct or latest data, the painful memories return so quickly...
With this update applied you should get better stability from WMI, integrated into this fix is the improvements that Microsoft made with WMI with Vista. What are those improvements? No one seems to know, seems kind of odd and if you have any insight please drop me a line and I will be sure to update this article.
This is not a fix if you are having issue with WMI - update - only update - you should still go the route of troubleshooting WMI using the WMIdiag.vbs which you can get here, remember you should only rebuild the WMI repository as an absolute last resort, or if you have spent more than three days working on the same computer. This update just makes WMI more stable so it is less likely to make you pull your hair out.
Regards,
Anthony
Anthony Clendenen | Systems Engineer | 1E Inc.
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