SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
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I am running Microsoft Vista Enterprise with the SMS 2003 SP3 console. I can connect to a SMS site fine and even drill down into collections and package briefly. Suddenly my WMI connection is lost and I can longer drill into anything else. I looked at my adminui.log and see:
[9A0][Fri 11/02/2007 15:02:54]:Error(CheckForDisconnect2): Invalid service pointer. WMI connection has been dropped. : -2147024891 [0x80070005]
Anyone seen this before? I am not running the windows firewall and have disabled my third part firewall with no success. If I install the console on a XP machine this never happens. I have full access!!
[9A0][Fri 11/02/2007 15:02:54]:Error(CheckForDisconnect2): Invalid service pointer. WMI connection has been dropped. : -2147024891 [0x80070005]
Anyone seen this before? I am not running the windows firewall and have disabled my third part firewall with no success. If I install the console on a XP machine this never happens. I have full access!!
RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
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RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317872/en-us
RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
Try to connect to "\\<Siteserver>\root\SMS\Site_<Sitecode>" from VISA client using WBEMTEST when issue is existing.
RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
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RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
If you reboot, then just try to recycle WMI service and open the console without reboot.
I suspect WMI (Not VISTA)is culprit.
What i understand is that SMS Console, makes asynchronus connections to WMI on provider, so its always 2 way communication between provider and client running the console. Could you confirm their is no intermittent connectivity issues between console client and server.
If you confirm above than I will post steps to rebuild WMI.
RE: SMS Console on Vista Enterprise System
On Vista, the firewall is enabled by default and prevents some communications between the Admin console and the SMS site server. As a result, you are unable to expand SMS nodes in the Admin console
WORKAROUND: Enable the firewall exception for WMI.