Getting Access is denied for Computer Discovery even though discovery account has local admin rights (4299511)

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Getting Access is denied for Computer Discovery even though discovery account has local admin rights
Description

When running a discovery get error message "Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))" the account used for the discovery is a domain admin and it is in the local admin group.
Cause

Connecting to WMI and the Remote Registry on the targets is required.
Resolution
To test WMI:
1. Log into the server that hosts the ER node using the service account that is used to run the SQL discovery
2. Go to Start then Run and type in 'wbemtest' and hit enter
3. Click on the Connect button and then for the namespace type in: \\targetservername\root\cimv2
4. Click Connect
If connections fails, check Microsoft documentation regarding WMI Troubleshotting

The documentation provided on this link is as is and it has not been tested from our support engineers

To test Remote Registry:
1. On the node, logged in as the node credentials, open regedit
2. Click File | Connect Network Registry
3. Enter one of the target computers
4. Confirm it connects and you can browse the hives

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