At some point the SQL Server Configuration Manager started to fail with error "Cannot connect to WMI provider.... Provider load failure [0x80041013]". It was working before. May be this is a coincidence but the problem started after we changed the the account under which the SQL Server service is running. We then changed it back to what it was before but the problem persists.
We already tried suggestion to run mofcomp utility against sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof file, but it did not help. The problem is still there.
Can anybody suggest some workaround please?