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Splitting up WMI Providers for Troubleshooting

Good Morning AskPerf!  My name is Jim Martin, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Performance team.  In today’s post, we are going to take a look at splitting up WMI providers.  I had been working with some customers who were Read More...
Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
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Managing the System Managed Page File

Hello again AskPerf!  Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mike Morales, one of our Escalation Engineers here in Irving, TX.  For those of you who have been with AskPerf for a while, Mike wrote a post for us a few months ago on UMDH.EXE .  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

WMI: Rebuilding the WMI Repository

REBUILDING THE WMI REPOSITORY Description: WMI uses the Common Information Model (CIM) to represent the managed objects in Windows. Managed objects are any device, software, physical or logical component. Each of these objects are stored in a database Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:27 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

WMI: Recompiling WMI MOFs

RECOMPILING WMI MOF’S Description: Managed Object Format (MOF) is a compiled language, created by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and based on the Interface Definition Language (IDL). The MOF file is a mechanism for expressing and registering Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:27 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

WMI: Microsoft Application (non-OS) WMI Provider

MICROSOFT APPLICATION (NON-OS) WMI PROVIDER Description: Failures with WMI providers rarely occur and it is often difficult to discern when having various issues with WMI whether a problem is due to an issue with a client application/script utilizing Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:26 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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WMI: Permissions and General Errors

WMI PERMISSIONS & GENERAL ERRORS Description: WMI can fail for a number of reasons. Some of those can include not having appropriate rights and permissions for access to machines or namespaces, problems with provider registration, corrupted repository, Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:26 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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WMI: Issues with In-box OS WMI Provider

IN-BOX OPERATING SYSTEM WMI PROVIDER Description: Failures with WMI providers rarely occur and it is often difficult to discern when having various issues with WMI whether a problem is due to an issue with a client application/script utilizing WMI, WMI Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:25 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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WMI: 3rd Party WMI Provider

THIRD PARTY WMI PROVIDERS Description: Failures with WMI providers rarely occur and it is often difficult to discern when having various issues with WMI whether a problem is due to an issue with a client application/script utilizing WMI, WMI itself, a Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:24 PM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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WMI: Can't Connect to Remote WMI

CAN'T CONNECT TO REMOTE WMI Description: WMI can fail for a number of reasons. Some of those can include not having appropriate rights and permissions for access to machines or namespaces, problems with provider registration, corrupted repository, and Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 1:24 PM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
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Two Minute Drill: Scriptomatic 2.0

Hello AskPerf! My name is Jeffrey Worline and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Performance team in Texas. We’ve done a number of posts in the past about WMI, and different WMI tools, and today we’re going to take a look at a powerful tool that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Two Minute Drill: WMIDiag and Namespace Security

Hello AskPerf. Happy New Year! My name is Gangadharan Prashanth and we’re going to kick off 2009 with a quick look at WMI Namespace Security and a common error message that we see when running the WMI Diagnosis Utility (WMIDiag). When running WMIDiag, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments

Why doesn’t my WMI Script return any information?

That’s right – more WMI adventures.  Today we’re going to take a look at a problem that we recently encountered with a customer whose WMI script did not return any Event Log information – but the Event Logs themselves were functioning with no apparent Read More...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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WMIDiag.vbs and the Missing WMI Files

Last year, we discussed using the WMI Diagnosis Utility in a post on Basic WMI Testing .  We’ve certainly noticed that more than a few of our customers are running the utility before contacting us, which certainly helps us in our troubleshooting.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments
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Memory and Handle Quotas in the WMI Provider Service

Hi folks, Mark Ghazai here once again with a quick tidbit on tweaking the WMI Provider Service (WMIPRVSE.EXE).  We’ve been getting some calls recently about the performance of this service and some failures that customers have been experiencing – Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments

WMI Troubleshooting: The Repository on Vista / Server 2008

Last year we did a quick series on WMI troubleshooting.  Something that we didn’t cover is a quick method to verify the consistency of the repository.  Many of you have probably done a rebuild of the repository on Windows Server 2003 or an earlier Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments
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