Troubleshooting

Recently I worked with someone who had issue distributing content and we checked the Site Status to investigate further which showed Distribution Manager errors.

To dive deeper and get to the root cause, we checked the DISTMGR.LOG file on the Distribution Point site server. DISTMR.LOG showed us this error.

ERROR DPConnection::ConnectRemoteIISManagementWMI() – Failed to connect to ConfigMgr.Domain.com. error = 0x8004100e

We spent quite a lot of time checking the permissions and did some other basic troubleshooting. Also, I checked IIS server and made sure it was running.

Upon checking all the required prerequisites of the IIS server, I found the “IIS 6 WMI Compatibility” role was not installed.

As soon as this role was installed, the issue in question was resolved straight away.

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