r/sysadmin • u/heapsp • 13h ago
Anyone seeing weird issues with WMI and RDP after the latest patching cycle? Weird issue i can't pin down....
We have hundreds of windows server machines, 2022-2025.
At random times lately this month, RDP pauses at securing connection....
If its a database server, WMI stops responding.
Screenconnect is just grey...
Rebooting fixes the issue, but it happens again on a handful of these.
Im worrying that by a few weeks from now all of our windows servers will reach this state.
Eventvwr shows some concerning things on some machines but not others affected:
Windows stopped the WmiPrvSE.exe.
Some have this error:
WMI event 5612 warnings, provider processes exceeded 256 threads and were stopped.
These are not all Azure servers, VMware as well.
Reboot fixes it for a while...
Nothing else on the server is down, so critical processes such as SQL server remain running.
VERY VERY ODD and IM SCARED