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SMS: The Query Extract Tool in the Resource Kit Is Unable to Return Data from Large Collections

Article ID: 254347

Article Last Modified on 9/11/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q254347

SYMPTOMS

If your server receives more than 5000 hits, the Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0 Query Extract tool, located in the Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit, is unable to return complete data and you may receive the following error message:

Method 'ExecQuery' of object 'ISWbemServices' failed.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, download the latest version of the Query Extract tool from the SMS 2.0 Support Tools section located on the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/default.mspx

STATUS

The latest version of the Query Extract tool has fixed this behavior.

MORE INFORMATION

The files in the Query Extract tool have the following file names, sizes, and dates:

Smsextract.mdb       454,656        3/18/99
Smsextract.xls       175,104        3/18/99
Smsextract.xlt       175,104        3/18/99

NOTE: Some files may have dates that are later than the preceding file dates.

Additional query words: prodsms, ACCESS, EXCEL

Keywords: kbbug kbcollections kbenv kbfix kbreport kbserver kbsmsadmin kbsmsutil KB254347

Microsoft KB Archive/254347

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