Hello, at a customer environment I am currently at a point where the enabled logging did not really help me. The “WMI hotfix detection failed” but the log doesn’t tell me why. Tried with PingCastle 3.5.0.37 and 3.5.0.40 with no luck. In this environment I have no admin workstation so I ran pingca…

[image] Brandon West: submit as ideas. Posted an idea for the Closed Ports logging/reporting: Extend logging to mention servers and services wich could not be reached

Hi Andreas, Thank you for reaching out! It sounds like you have isolated your ‘why’ to the end client’s firewall. If, after you have confirmed that all prerequisites to use PingCastle as satisfied, you still experience problems please engage Technical Support by raising a ticket in our customer po…

Posted “optimize wmi queries…” in this idea: [image] Optimize WMI queries to be modern and faster Ideas What is a one sentence summary of your feature request? Add CIM through HTTP/WinRM as an alternative to WMI through RPC/DCOM and optimize timeouts Plea…

WMI hotfix detection failed / Access denied when querying Win32_QuickFixEngineering

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Andreas.Rinner (Andreas Rinner) February 18, 2026, 6:06pm 4

Posted “optimize wmi queries…” in this idea:

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Extend logging to mention servers and services wich could not be reached Ideas planned , ideas	1	19	March 6, 2026
Optimize WMI queries to be modern and faster Ideas planned , ideas	0	26	February 18, 2026
Minor Version 3.4 Released News pingcastle , announcement , release-minor	15	1307	July 17, 2025
PingCastle Bug Fix List News pingcastle , bug-fix-list	0	51	March 12, 2026
Netwrix PingCastle 3.5 Released News pingcastle , announcement , release-minor	27	844	February 24, 2026

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