THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA

So if some of your workstations are not showing up properly in the SBS 2008 Computers console, here's what I did to fix all of my truant ones.

Event ID 10016 Source DCOM:
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=10016&eventno=4718&source=DCOM&phase=1

In my case I went into Dcomcnfg.exe

Then I went under component services, computers, my computer, dcom config, then found the 49BD2028-1523-11D1-AD79-00C04FD8FDFF CSLID and changed the settings to "use default"

Rebooted.

Then I followed this and

Repairing and re-registering the WMI:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm

Did the following commands at a c:\

rundll32 wbemupgd, UpgradeRepository

Then did this:

This big square box will load up just hit cancel.

Close the command window.

Why did I do all of that?  to get the WMI kicked back into gear so I could fix the lack of security status being reported in the SBS 2008 console.

If your machines are not checking in, it's either a firewall blocking the communication, or your WMI messed up.

Vista and Win7's were connecting just fine but I had three XPs not reporting the proper security status.   Remember that servers will not report a status as they have no security status center.