Server 2008 R2 and wmiprvse.exe crashes

Recently I was checking the health of a couple of my primary site servers and as I was going through some of the logs I noticed in the application event log there where event 1000 application errors that kept reoccurring. It seemed that every couple of days wmiprvse.exe would crash and then restart but with little noticeable effect. After some digging I came across a blog entry describing a problem with SCVMM and WMI. It referenced a wmi hotfix (KB981314) that Microsoft released that deals specifically with event 1000 wmiprvse.exe errors. I decided to install the hotfix on the two site servers experiencing the problem as they are in a staging environment. Since installing the hotfix on both servers the number of wmiprvse.exe crashes has dropped significantly. It’s only been about three weeks but things are looking good…