Event showing “A connection to the Windows Metadata and Internet Services (WMIS) could not be established.”
Event showing “A connection to the Windows Metadata and Internet Services (WMIS) could not be established.”
- Download the PSExec tool from SysInternals.
- Exctract the PsExec64.exe.
- Open up a PowerShell and run the following command: PsExec64.exe -s -i powershell.exe.
- A new powershell window will open, if you run the whoami command you should see that you are running as nt authority\system.
- Now you can disable the “Metadata Refresh” task schedule by running: Get-ScheduledTask -TaskPath “\Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup\” | Disable-ScheduledTask