Addressing "Access Denied" Exception with WMI Calls

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Published on 2010-06-11T04:35:19Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 4:42 UTC
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I'm getting an exception with a message of "Access Denied" when executing against a WMI request. Some WMI requests appear to require higher security privileges than others. Ultimately my goal is to monitor process launches within the system and log. Regardless if there is a better approach, its now become a vendetta in getting this WMI approach to work.

I've attempted the code at Security Tools -> WMI Programming Using C#.Net and still receive the exception. If you copy the code found in the blog entry you can reproduce my issue.

Another post on a similar topic can be found at link text but again, try the code and you'll the see the same security exception.

How do I permit my code to execute these WMI requests?

I'm running on Windows 7 Pro and VS 2010 in a new C# command line project.

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