WMIC returns error when querying product

Posted by Stu on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Stu
Published on 2010-02-25T11:19:32Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 20:13 UTC
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I'm trying to automate the installation of an MSI on my server, however before the installation can go ahead I need to uninstall the previous version from the server.

Searching on the internet I've found that WMIC is the tool required but there seems to be a problem with the setup of WMI on the server. Running the following command gives errors:

command prompt>wmic

then inside the tool

/trace:on

product get name

This returns a long string of successes and one failure:

FAIL: IEnumWbemClassObject->Next(WBEM_INFINITE, 1, -, -)
Line:    396 File: d:\nt\admin\wmi\wbem\tools\wmic\execengine.cpp

Node - ENTECHORELDEV
ERROR:
Code = 0x80041010
Description = The specified class is not valid.
Facility = WMI

I'm trying to run this on a standard install of Windows Server 2003 R2 with administrator privelages.

Thanks

Stu

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