Random error when running Get-WmiObject

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Hi folks,

We’re attempting to deploy to various 2008 SP2 environments and are encountering a strange error on some servers, but not all. We’re using Get-WmiObject to start and stop the app pool since we can’t get WebAdministration installed on the servers. Part of the script we’re trying to run is as follows:

$PoolNameFilter = "NAME='www.blah.com'"
Get-WmiObject -Namespace 'root\webadministration' -Class ApplicationPool -Authentication 6 -Filter $PoolNameFilter

The raw log from running this is attached.

It’s strange that this isn’t happening on all servers - and also when we run it from Powershell on the failed servers themselves, it works fine.

Thanks (again!) for your help.

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Oops. We might have found the cause - looks like the Tentacle service on the environments that didn’t work might be running under a non-admin account…

Doh.