Win32_PrintJob enumerations with WMI will fail if a printer is offline in Windows 2000

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SYMPTOMS

When you use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) under Microsoft Windows 2000, and you enumerate the Win32_PrintJob class, the enumeration will not work if any one of the printers cannot be contacted. When this problem occurs, the Wbemess.log file will contain the following error:

(...) : Polling query select * from Win32_PrintJob failed with error code 80041001. Will retry at next polling interval

No error results are returned for the other printers that are online.

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RESOLUTION

Hotfix information

A newer version of this hotfix is available. For additional information about the newer hotfix, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

889405 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889405/ ) The process that runs a WMI statement stops responding on a Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later-based computer

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File information

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   Date         Time   Version         Size       File name
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   10-Mar-2004  20:18  1.50.1085.120   1,093,733  Cimwin32.dll

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