SQL Server 2005 Configuration Manager - Cannot Connect to WMI Provider Error

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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I was trying to use the SQL Server 2005 Configuration Manager tool tonight and kept getting a "Cannot connect to WMI provider" error. Very frustrating because the error message didn't give the slightest clue how to fix the problem. After doing a few searches, I came across the following post by Eric Charran that solved the problem. Apparently there are some "mof" files that must not have been installed incorrectly on my system or got corrupted. I would've never figured out the solution in a 1,000 years but fortunately Eric blogged about the following command that fixed the problem instantly:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared>mofcomp "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof"

4 Comments

HI ,dwahlin
Can U answer a question with your company web site?
I wannt know how does it that in your company web site when I saw the source code with per aspx ,I cannt see the

<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE"
such code.why
thanks

john - Monday, May 26, 2008 3:08:25 PM

John,

Let me know which site you're talking about.

dwahlin - Monday, May 26, 2008 4:41:35 PM

You'll see some ViewState in there. All of the other controls on the page post to other pages so there's no event targets needed since postbacks to the same page aren't occurring.

dwahlin - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:37:03 AM

I finded it.thanks again

john - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:48:33 AM

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