WMI Probe Module Failed Execution
Hello, After the upgrade to SP1 of SCE2007 we receive a lot of these alerts... WMI Probe Module Failed Execution. The details are almost everytime the same: Object enumeration failed Query: 'SELECT Version,Caption,BuildNumber,CSDVersion,ServicePackMajorVersion,ServicePackMinorVersion,SerialNumber,InstallDate,SystemDrive,WindowsDirectory,TotalVisibleMemorySize FROM Win32_OperatingSystem' Error: 0x80041017 Details: One or more workflows were affected by this. Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DiscoverWindowsOSProperties Instance name:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Instance ID: {EFA34817-3121-4F54-D8D7-3BF2E8509DCF} Management group: xxxxxxxx_xx Anybody got any ideas? Many thanks in advance, brgds, Mike
March 14th, 2008 6:09pm

Have you noticed if its specifically WIndows 2000 machines?I have beenr receiving similar messages on my remaining Windows 2000 machines: Object enumeration failed Query: 'SELECT Version,Caption,BuildNumber,CSDVersion,ServicePackMajorVersion,ServicePackMinorVersion,SerialNumber,InstallDate,SystemDrive,WindowsDirectory,TotalVisibleMemorySize FROM Win32_OperatingSystem' HRESULT: 0x80041017 Details: Invalid query One or more workflows were affected by this. Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DiscoverWindowsOSProperties Instance name: xxxxx Instance ID: {1AE3E2F0-0D0C-54A3-69FE-DF6AA951CEAE} Management group: ADMINSRV_MG
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March 14th, 2008 6:44pm

Hey Tim, Many thanks for the quick response. No, it is coming on all of my machines. XP, Server 2003 and 2000 server. I don't have any 2000 pro's left in the company. Brgds, Mike
March 14th, 2008 6:47pm

Hi Mike, This is a known issue, which is under investigation and will be fixed in the future. You can just safely ignore the alerts. You can also disable the Rule which generates the alerts by following these steps: 1. Open SCE console and navigate to Authoring pane; 2. Expand Rules and find a rule named "WMI Probe Module Execution Failure"; 3. Right-click it and choose Overrides -> Disable the Rule -> For all objects of type: Agent. Hope it helps.
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March 17th, 2008 2:52pm

Dear, Many thanks for your response. I've disabled the rule as you said and will check tomorrow morning if there are no more alerts. Many thanks, brgds, Mike
March 17th, 2008 7:04pm

Are you supposed to disable this rull for all Type for just "Type: Agent"?
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May 15th, 2008 7:44pm

If you're receiving this error on Dell clients check outKB948730.
June 26th, 2008 5:12pm

Yog Li - MSFT wrote: Hi Mike, This is a known issue, which is under investigation and will be fixed in the future. You can just safely ignore the alerts. You can also disable the Rule which generates the alerts by following these steps: 1. Open SCE console and navigate to Authoring pane; 2. Expand Rules and find a rule named "WMI Probe Module Execution Failure"; 3. Right-click it and choose Overrides -> Disable the Rule -> For all objects of type: Agent. Hope it helps. Can you tell us what the problem is?
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November 21st, 2008 12:21am

Has a hotfix been released yet for this issue?
February 21st, 2009 12:13am

Hi Rick, Please check thefollowing KB article, which is also appliable for SCE: 951979Problems occur on a management server that is running System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 when certain management packs are installedhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;951979The hotfix include some lastest MP. You need to import into SCE console to update them.Hope it helps,Yog Li - MSFT
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February 23rd, 2009 2:32pm

kinda puzzled how this new mp's gonna solve the problem for win2k clients.i've found out that it fails on win2k servers because the select statement isn't correct. When manually run "'SELECT Version,Caption,BuildNumber,CSDVersion,ServicePackMajorVersion,ServicePackMinorVersion,SerialNumber,InstallDate,SystemDrive,WindowsDirectory,TotalVisibleMemorySize FROM Win32_OperatingSystem" fails as well. However, when i remove the property "SystemDrive" it runs perfectly. Well at least the error makes sense now... 0x80041017 = invalid query :)I was just wondering if that property doesnt exist in win2k sp4 and that e.g. the "System.mom.backwardcompatibility.library.mp" solves it?
April 14th, 2009 8:36pm

Rob1974 I believe that you're right, Server 2000 machines do not contain the SystemDrive property and that's where the query fails.
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April 15th, 2009 1:20am

Hi Yog Limay be the problem still appear on System Center 2007 R2?I have a lot of servers with this errors.Regards.Alejandro.Alejandro Mazzitelli | http://geeks.ms/blogs/amazzite
August 6th, 2009 4:25am

I'm still seeing it with R2 also on 2003 machines.Ralph Bley
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October 30th, 2009 8:51pm

You have to check the error code. there are lots of reasons why this could fail (timeouts, access denied, etc), but the specific one mentioned here has been solved.
November 5th, 2009 6:39pm

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