DCom hardening breaks remote WMI in Windows PE

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I recently found out that the DCom hardening soluition Microsoft shipped with the June updates causes remote WMI from Windows PE to fail with an access denied message. When implementing the temporary registry key workaround, remote WMI queries do work.My situation is one where I use a pre-start command in the Configuration Manager boot image to run a powershell script that uses WMI to query the configuration manager environment to check the local UUID against the database to see whether a system is already in Config Manager. The script uses a valid user account for the WMI query. With the June

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