StumpedTechy
MIS
Okay I have over 400 imaged PC's that were actually an 2000 to XP conversion YUCK.
My boss wants me to salvage these machines to try and save the time rebuilding so many machines so I am going through them with a fine tooth comb and getting the "kinks" out.
I have them mostly fixed but then I ran into WMI issues.
All 400 machines would not relay the last rebooted time from the WMI. Win32_OperatingSystem.LastBootUpTime. We use this information to force reboots if the machine has been up too long. I then found this gem -
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection WBEM 132 %windir%\inf\wbemoc.inf
When put into the run line this will get windows to reinstall WMI (formerly WBEM thus why you see WBEMoc.inf)
The problem I am having is on some of these machines even after doing this when I use WMI Explorer to connect to these now 75 computers I get things like Error: Not Found or Error: Intialization Failure and a select few have WMI installed but don't show Win32_X they just show _X calls that aren't populated (almost as thought the place its refferenceing is missing?)
On these machines the reinstall has been ran the WMI service is automatic and started. I have even stopped and restarted it.
So in all I got the 400 down to 75ish using the rundll32.exe line but on these 75ish machines i cannot find any other possible fixes. Any ideas?
My boss wants me to salvage these machines to try and save the time rebuilding so many machines so I am going through them with a fine tooth comb and getting the "kinks" out.
I have them mostly fixed but then I ran into WMI issues.
All 400 machines would not relay the last rebooted time from the WMI. Win32_OperatingSystem.LastBootUpTime. We use this information to force reboots if the machine has been up too long. I then found this gem -
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection WBEM 132 %windir%\inf\wbemoc.inf
When put into the run line this will get windows to reinstall WMI (formerly WBEM thus why you see WBEMoc.inf)
The problem I am having is on some of these machines even after doing this when I use WMI Explorer to connect to these now 75 computers I get things like Error: Not Found or Error: Intialization Failure and a select few have WMI installed but don't show Win32_X they just show _X calls that aren't populated (almost as thought the place its refferenceing is missing?)
On these machines the reinstall has been ran the WMI service is automatic and started. I have even stopped and restarted it.
So in all I got the 400 down to 75ish using the rundll32.exe line but on these 75ish machines i cannot find any other possible fixes. Any ideas?