To modify permissions or delete authorized users
Updated: January 21, 2005
- Open WMI Control.
- In the console tree, Right-click WMI Control
- Click Properties
- Click the Security tab.
- Select the namespace for which you want to change a user's or group's permissions or delete a user or group
- Click Security
- In the Security dialog box, under Name, select the user or group you want to remove or whose permissions you want to modify.
- Perform one of the following steps:
- To remove the user or group, click Remove.
- To change security settings, under Permissions, modify the permissions which are allowed or denied to the user or group by clearing or selecting the appropriate check boxes.
Notes
- To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority. If the computer is joined to a domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this procedure. As a security best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure.
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To open the WMI Control console do the following
- Click Start
- Click Run
- Type wmimgmt.msc
- Click OK
- WMI security is verified only when a user logs on to Windows Management services. Thus, any changes made to a user's permissions while the user is connected do not take effect until the next time the user logs on to WMI. For example, if a user's access is revoked, the changes do not take effect until the user logs off Windows Management services and attempts to log on again.
- You can modify user or group permissions on a remote
computer or a local computer. To access a remote computer
- Right-click WMI Control
- Click Connect to another computer
- Click Another computer
- Type the name of the computer to which you want to connect
- If you use WMI Control from the computer Management Console, Right-click the Computer Management node to connect to the other computer.