I have a powershell script that loops through a list of instances and using the SQLSERVER:\ drive retrieves a number of instance properties.when running it on my workstation I receive the following warning and error when trying to connect to any server that has only had SQL Server 2012 installed. If it was upgraded to 2012 or if it is 2008/2005, then the connection works fine.[code="plain"]WARNING: Could not obtain SQL Server Service information. An attempt to connect to WMI on 'servername' failed with the following error: SQL Server WMI provider is not available on servername. --> Invalid namespacecd : Cannot find path 'SQLSERVER:\sql\servername' because it does not exist.At line:1 char:1+ cd servername+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (SQLSERVER:\sql\servername:String) [Set-Location], ItemNotFoundExcep tion + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetLocationCommand[/code]RPC communication is open between my workstation and the servers and I can see that the connection is being established. The WMI namespace for sql server is installed and functioning as I can use it with the get-wmiobject cmdlet. The sql server wmi namespace is "root\microsoft\sqlserver" with subnamespaces of "root\microsoft\sqlserver\ServerEvents" and "root\microsoft\sqlserver\ComputerManagement[i]XX[/i]". the XX appears to be the SQL version that is installed. (ie root\microsoft\sqlserver\ComputerManagement11" for sql server 2012). for servers that have been upgraded from 2008 to 2012 there is a computermanagement namespace for both 10 and 11.The servers that do not work only have a namespace of root\microsoft\sqlserver\ComputerManagement11. While executing "cd SQLSERVER:\sql\servername" I ran a packet capture and I can see that the PoSH session is checking for the Computermanagement namespaces but is doesnt check for 11. It checks for ComputerManagement12, ComputerManagement10, and ComputerManagement. So this is where my problem lies.My workstation only has SQL Server 2014 tools and have never had any previous version installed. If I connect from a server that has 2012 installed, things work fine.So now to the questions. First, is this a bug in 2014 that the SQLPS module does not check for the computermanagement11 namespace? Second, does anybody know how to make it check for all namespace versions? (ie possibly install 2012 tools, or just the 2012 [url=http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=29065]powershell tools/smo objects [/url].Thanks in advanced.
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