I can see you resolved the issue, but there is nice utility from
Microsoft which is basically a VB Script which checks and suggests
corrective actions if problem is found with WMI. You can download it
from the following link...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/help/wmidiag.mspx

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Hello list,
our company has recently deployed Share Point Portal as an intranet solution, and we are currently working on opening a part of it to the internet. I am trying to set up a logging mechanism of IIS logs using MS Log Parser, and i would apreciate some pointers in the sense of interesting s

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I am looking for a way to forcibly set the password that a dialup
connection sets from a script/command line, searching has proved futile.
For some unknown reason dialup passwords on client machines are blanking
intermittently.

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Michael Chinn
User Support Officer - Information Technology

Gre

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Hello Harlan,

Yes, by saying "makes use" I mean to say it's an dependency. "Windows Security Center" & "Windows ICS", both these services depends on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service. If you disable WMI service, then above mentioned Service would fail to start.

Nikhi

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Hello Murda Mcloud,

"Windows Security Center" Service & "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" Service makes use of this "Windows WMI" service.

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Nikhil Wagholikar
Security Analyst

NII Consulting
Web: www.niiconsulting.com

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Hi, we have a user with a laptop whose machine has had performance issues
which we've tracked down to the WMI service. As a temporary fix I have
turned off the service and now everything works fine. It seems to be that
something when starting up is using WMI and slowing things down.

Does anyone k

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Hi,

We have a single hop model for administering Windows servers in
datacenter. First admins login using RDP from their desktops to
Microsoft Terminal server which serves as a gateway. From the gateway
they open a second terminal connection[RDP] to their own application
servers.

This gateway term

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admingurl (at) excite (dot) com [email concealed] wrote:
> Is there a group policy or Windows Security setting that would allow
> some of my users (i.e. non administators) to unlock a workstation?
>
>
> So far all I can find is a third party application ( Unlock
> Administrator http://www.e-motional.com/ULAdmin.htm ) This pr

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I just have a question about the usb token driver.How can we ensure the driver connected with our usb token is the right driver,but a fake one,or a trojan horse.If a trojan horse connect with our usb token.Is our transaction still safe or security?

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Is there a group policy or Windows Security setting that would allow some of my users (i.e. non administators) to unlock a workstation?

So far all I can find is a third party application ( Unlock Administrator http://www.e-motional.com/ULAdmin.htm ) This program seems to do the trick but I obviou

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Hello,

I wrote a little article about how easy it was for me to create a "pseudo trojan" which uses a fresh installed Windows Vista with all recommended Security Essentials turned on and a User Account without administrative privileges as a part of a botnet for Spam or even DDoS attacks. I would

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I thought I would share this to see if there were any other similar
situations someone had come across.
I have been applying a security template to XP machines using the
secedit.exe cmdline tool. I noticed that the Maxpassword age would not
apply, defaulting to 42 days (setup security settings),

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