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Provider is not capable of the attempted operation (0x80041024) when using wbemtest

When trying to set the External addresses for the Group Expansion Server, The Address Book Files and the Meeting Content Download you would normally use WBEMTEST to set the WMI parameters.

In a normal scenario, you would open each of the relevant objects e.g. MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting, and click the "Instances" button. It seems that with OCS 2007 R2 you can't do that. You get an error like the following;

Number: 0x80041024

Facility: WMI

Description: Provider is not capable of the attempted operation

Instead of doing that, you have to do a query for any instances and in particular, you have to specify "where backend=xxxx" as part of the query. So for example if you have an Enterprise pool with SQL installed as the default instance, the query would be as follows;

select * from MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting where backend="mysqlserver"

Detailed information on this is provided in the following Microsoft Support Article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938288).

Published Mar 10 2009, 12:20 AM by Cam
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Cameron is a highly experienced Microsoft specialist who has been working in IT for over 15 years. Currently he owns and operates a Hosting company named Emantra in Brisbane, Australia.

His expertise is particularly in Microsoft Exchange server and general hosting. He has been working with Exchange since version 4.0 and been in the hosting game since 2003. Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration platforms is another one of Cameron’s specialties. He has installed and maintained all versions from 3.5 upwards.

His loves are technology, beer and socialising with mates.