Suppress Powershell Warning in agent job "WARNING: Could not obtain SQL Server Service information"

Question

Hi
I get this warning running through powershell_ise but through sql agent it just errors out.
The code does everything it is supposed to and I tried everything to completely resolve the warning to no avail.
How do I supress it so sql agent wont error out running powershell code?
Thanks!
WARNING: Could not obtain SQL Server Service information. An attempt to connect to WMI on 'server_name' failed with the following error: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
Warning only present when it connects to remote servers, it doesn't produce it for local server. And it does get all info from the remote servers.
Paula

Answer 1

Hi paulata,
According to your description, when you run powershell scripts about  the remote machine
 in SQL Server Agent job, the warning error will occur. “The common error message is Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)).” This suggests that your credentials aren't sufficient for accessing the
remote system. If you have an account that has sufficient permissions for the query, there's a simple workaround for this problem in the form of PowerShell's Get-Credential command and the script's Credential parameter. I recommend you check if your account
has permission on remote machine and it can execute the powershell scripts.
In addition, if you want to run query statement on the remote machine , I recommend you create Linked Server, then do some related operations. There is a similar issue about access denied, you can review the following article.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/157f536d-6716-4547-bdb4-9e3c8451cb95/sql-agent-service-account-permissions-sql-server-2008?forum=sqlgetstarted
Regards,
Sofiya Li
Sofiya Li
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