I’m running Windows 10 Pro on all PCs and two Server 2012 R2 Standard servers. I cannot seem to get any inventory information from any of the devices except the host. Using Windows firewall and Defender for AV. I’ve installed the Agent on a Win10 box for testing purposes and that did not work either. Any suggestions would be grateful!

2 Spice ups

You don’t state which OS the Spiceworks is installed on so lets first cover the fact it isn’t supported on Windows 10

It will scan them, but isn’t supported on the machine as the host.

File and printer sharing needs to be enabled in network and sharing centre for starters, can you confirm?

It was installed on a Win10 box running perfectly fine and it even inventoried itself without any errors. However, my other network devices were throwing login errors. With that said, I removed and installed it on Server 2012 R2. I was able to scan only the three servers (including itself) I have running and three printers. None of my Win10 PCs (non-domain joined) are scanning whether the firewall is on or off. File and Print sharing is on all PCs.

Do they all have the same local admin password? Is UAC enable?

Yes, they all have the same account and password as the local admin. UAC is set to not prompt…but I haven’t fully tried to disable it.

Run this on a client and import the attached registry file.

The firewall rule allows WMI to function and the registry file allows remote admins to bypass UAC (if enabled)

Run a Command Prompt as Administrator on the machine that is failing, and enter / paste the following (without quotes):
“netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=“windows management instrumentation (WMI)” new enable=Yes”
If you use a different firewall you need to configure this manually, if you use HIPs or IDS/IPS make sure these are not blocking the scan

Spiceworks_UAC_remote_allow.reg (167 Bytes)

That resolves the issue! Thanks!

Glad to hear it.