Hi, I'm new to WMI... For the last few months I've been having great success writing Windows Powershell script that would run on the local machine grabbing WMI data and working just fine. Now I need to grab WMI data from some non domain member Windows 2003 SP2 servers remotely and I swear that I'm just about cracking up trying to get this to work. But the weird thing is some of my queries work just fine other crash out with a 0x80070005 E_ACCESS_DENIED error. My client machine is XP Pro Corp with SP2. Eg I can remotely query Win32_useraccounts and Win32_logicaldisk -No problem at all there. But when I try to query Win32_Groups or Win32_UserGroup it crashes out with the 0x80070005 E_ACCESS_DENIED. The strange thing is my Powershell command INCLUDES the -credential switch which authenticates me with the Administrator account! Obviously I can log on interactively with that account and it works fine for some queries just not others. I'm wondering if there is some restriction kicking in when the type of data I'm calling for is sensitive? I've checked the firewall at client and servers and made exceptions for remote admin. I've checked DCOM/WMI and allowed Admin EVERYTHING and I've looked at WMI Control and there appears to be no restrictions on the 'root\cimv2' namespace. I've stopped and started WMI service and rebooted the server(s) to no avail and now I'm really beginning to sweat! I REALLY need that WMI data from these servers but don't know what to do next. I'm not really much of a Windows server expert more a scripter.. I'd be very grateful if some kind soul were to advise me on what I can try next. Please... Stuart
