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22 days ago

WMI Least Privileges

Our support team is trying to move away from traditionally adding admin group privileges' to least privileage of WMI.But they have issues in giving the permissions to Enable Account–Controls the ability to enable and disable the WMI provider ensuring that only the authorised entities can control its state. Remote Enable–Governs whether remote systems can access and query the WMI provider on the local computer, thus preventing unauthorised remote access.Just for WMI querying why do we need enable account and remote enable

Why it Controls the ability to enable and disable the WMI provider ensuring that only the authorised entities can control its state.

Why it needs to Governs whether remote systems can access and query the WMI provider on the local computer, thus preventing unauthorised remote access

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