SQL Server Config manager error: Cannot connect to WMI provider

Question

I cant open my SQL server configuration manager getting this error message:

Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005 and later servers with SQL Server Configuration Manager. 
Invalid

I have searched online material and ran the mofcomp command as recommended: mofcomp “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Shared\sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof”

I am now getting this error message:

MOF file has been successfully parsed
Storing data in the repository…
An error occurred while processing item 10 defined on lines 73 – 79 in file C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Shared\sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof:
Compiler returned error 0x80070005Error Number: 0x80070005, Facility: Win32
Description: Access is denied.

Can you please help me out, been 2 weeks sited with this problem

Answer 1

Run Cmd as Administrator and execute these commands:

First go to SQL Shared folder according to your sql version:

SQL 2008: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Shared\
SQL 2012: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Shared\
SQL 2014: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Shared\
SQL 2017: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Shared\ -------> My version is 2017 SQL 2019: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\150\Shared\

Find more versions here

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Shared"

Then:

mofcomp sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof

Update:

The problem occurs because the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provider configuration file for manage SQL Server services is missing. So the mofcomp command repairs or recreates it.

Here is more explanation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/wmisdk/mofcomp

Answer 2

Run the @Fereydoon Barkzehy codes with Administrative Access

Sample -

  cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Shared
  cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Shared
  mofcomp sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof

depends on where the file "sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof" is present

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Answer 3

The best solution for me was to uninstall the instance and reinstall a fresh instance. This worked 100%.