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Updated February 1, 2018
The SolarWinds Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Providers for managed clients provide additional management and inventory tools that are not native to WSUS. Without them, you can only use Patch Manager to interface with WSUS, not directly with any managed clients.
Due to inventory or deployment tasks, WMI providers can be installed on workstations and servers by mistake. This article describes how to use Patch Manager to remove the WMI Providers from your managed computers.
All Patch Manager versions