WMI Configuration Error on SQL 2005 install

Question

SQL Server 2005 is giving me the following error during the "System Check" portion of the initial install: "The SQL Server Configuration Checker cannot be executed due to WMI configuration on the machine Error:2147749907 (0x80041013)."

Machine is a Dell D620 running XP SP2.

I found a batch command online that is supposed to fix the problem, but it didn't work.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi,

Are you running Microsoft Operations Manager on your server?

May I suggest disabling any services that utilise the WMI interface, so any performance monitoring software you are using, just whilst you install SQL Server.

Cheers, John

Answer 2

Manju Madhavan on my team finally found the answer:

rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection WBEM 132 %windir%\inf\wbemoc.inf

The setup asked for long list of files that I had to search around to find. Some were in the i386 folder on the XP SP3 disk, some in %windir%/system32. As the installer would stop and ask for a file I would search around until I found a copy.

Manju found the answer online and documents it on her blog.

Answer 3

I have a W2K3 server and facing the same problem. I tried running the above mentioned fix but it didn't work. batch file solution mentioned on all other forums didn't work either. Please help.