So, rebuilding a DFSR server on Server 2008 x64.  Logged in with admin priviliges and ran into an issue.. I didn't find anything on it, and didn't really think about it.

 

 

if you open up dfsrdiag and run a command like pollad you get the error message:

 

[ERROR] Failed to connect to WMI services on computer: servername

Operation Failed

 

 

So, after doing the standard stuff of making sure wmi was running, firewall wasn't in the way, and searching for the issue...  Didn't come up with a solution

 

Open up wmic and no issue from command prompt and can poll wmi...

 

Then get the idea, what if it requries cmd to run with "administrator"... sure enough... restart cmd with admin priviliges and it works...