0x80070005 Access Denied

Setup Commander is using both WMI and the SMS Provider to create applications in CM2012. When creating applications, you can run into this exception message:

when not having sufficient rights to create applications.

More information is available in this 0x80070005 Access Denied forum discussion on the TechNet forums.

You can use WBEMTest to troubleshoot right issues.

The ‘Windows Management Instrumentation Tester‘ (WBEMTest) is an embedded Windows utility which you can use to troubleshoot WMI issues. To start it click Start, click Run, and then type wbemtest.exe. Based on the results, you can verify firewall settings and WMI rights, and change your system accordingly.