SQL Server: Cannot Connect to WMI Provider
From the archive (2014). Written for the tools of the time, so some details may be out of date.
Recently encountered a SQL issue when trying to open the SQL Server Configuration Manager on my ConfigMgr Database server. This KB was the resolution for me: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956013
I received the following error when attempting to open the tool.
Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005 and later servers with SQL Server Configuration Manager.
Invalid namespace [0x8004100e]
My SQL Server install was SQL Server 2012 SP1.
Running the mofcomp of sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof resolved the issue for me after a restart of the WMI service.
