Enabling WMI on Windows Azure

To enable WMI on Windows Azure machines:

• Open the firewall port 135
• Set WMI to use a static port

Step one:  Set the DCOM config to use a static port....

Basically, run "dcomcnfg" from command prompt. Navigate the tree to My Computer > DCOM Config > Windows Management and Instrumentation, select properties of that folder.

Go to the Endpoints tab

Select Properties button for Connection-oriented TCP/IP

Use static endpoint, set the port.

Step 2:  Configure WMI to use a fixed port

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219447(v=VS.85).aspx

1. At the command prompt, type winmgmt -standalonehost
2. Stop the WMI service by typing the command net stop "Windows Management Instrumentation"
3. Restart the WMI service again in a new service host by typing net start "Windows Management Instrumentation"
4. Establish a new port number for the WMI service by typing netsh firewall add portopening TCP 24158 WMIFixedPort

Still testing this myself, so not 100% certain it works.

49154 - TCP Port for DCOM when using wmic.

http://community.zenoss.org/message/69830

winexe -U Administrator%password //157.56.167.120 "C:\\AutoHotKeyScripts\\debug.exe"

To get winexe working make sure to open port 445 on Azure.

When I got the error

[winexe/winexe.c:120:on_ctrl_pipe_error()] ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT code 0x00000424

I did the following:

sc create winexesvc binPath= C:\WINDOWS\WINEXESVC.EXE start= auto DisplayName= winexesvc 

sc description winexesvc "Remote command provider for Zenoss monitoring"