Get-WmiObject : The RPC Server is Unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)

This week while working with some PowerShell scripts that retrieve WMI information from remote servers, I ran into an issue where I was able to return results from Windows 2008 R2 servers without issue but was unable to return results from Windows 2008 (non-R2) servers even though they had PowerShell 2.0 installed and as far as I could tell they were configured exactly the same as the Windows 2008 R2 servers....

March 8, 2012 · 1 min · 154 words · Mike F. Robbins