Issue
Running Discovery on a Windows device may fail with the following error, even if test credential is successful.
launchWMI: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005(E_ACCESSDENIED))
Release
Madrid
Cause
Access to the admin$ share on the target host was always a requirement for Discovery to run successfully. For example, our documentation indicates that access to admin$\temp is required for the WMI: Active Connections probe. The credential used should be a local administrator on the device being discovered.
On the Madrid Patch 3 release, a code change related to Powershell requires all WMIRunner probes to have access to the admin$/temp folder on the device being discovered.
Resolution
Ensure that the credential used is a local administrator on the host being discovered. If the credential used has necessary privileges, the cause could be Anti-virus, Anti-malware protection software / Host intrusion Prevention Software, in that case, try to disable the antivirus for testing purposes.
