Event Performance Issue When Polling Large Objects with WMI (274599)

SYMPTOMS

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) may be slow to respond to registering event consumers that poll classes whose instances sizes are very large. For example, Active Directory objects may have this problem because they are normally very large.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date        Time      Version       Size     File name    Platform
   ------------------------------------------------------------------
   10/24/2000  21:41:58  1.50.1085.34  372,804  Wbemess.dll  Intel

How to Use the Hotfix Installer

NOTE: You can use this method only for Intel-based computers running Windows 2000.

Copy the hotfix file (Q274599.exe) to a local folder on your computer, or copy the file to a share on your network.
Run the Q274599.exe file and follow the directions.
Reboot your computer.

MORE INFORMATION

As an example, in a domain with around 100 users, registering the following query may take several minutes:

   SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent
      WITHIN 30 WHERE TargetInstance ISA 'ds_user'

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: