Pardon the question in the wmi newsgroup. The problem seems
to involve MSI and registry permissions rather than WMI. I do
get stray Events listed in the Application Event log involving
WMI but for the moment I'm trying to get the registry
permissions resolved involving MSI.

The "Application Event" reported when running an MSI
application...

<ApplicationEventMSIProblem>

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1015
Date: 12/22/2005
Time: 4:43:56 PM
User: MPNEW\Frog
Computer: MPNEW
Description:
Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070005
For more information, see Help and Support Center
at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

</ApplicationEventMSIProblem>

Using the following command line to restore permissions
results in the permissions as listed (throughout most of
HKLM)...

secedit /configure /cfg C:\WINDOWS\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose

Administrators - Full Control (Inherited)
Everyone - QV, ES, N, RC (Inherited)
RESTRICTED - QV, ES, N, RC (Inherited)
SYSTEM - Full Control (Inherited)

QV = Query Value
ES = Enumerate Subkeys
N = Notify
RC = Read Control

My goal, at the moment, involves getting MSI to work.
I greatly appreciate any and all suggestions. Some
other permission problems exist so if anyone knows of
a cure-all for registry permissions, great! Again, my
apologies for starting this in the WMI group.

--
Jim Carlock
Post replies to the newsgroup, thanks.