Wmi Scanning

Just a quick note for myself:

Enabling WMI scanning on Windows 7 for Spiceworks:

There are two steps:

1. netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=“windows management instrumentation (WMI)” new enable=Yes
2. Open Windows Firewall Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Inbound Rules and make sure all the “File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request - ICMPvX - In)” rules are enabled.

Really, you shouldn’t need both, but the first command seems to skip some of the domain rules, so…