Thanks to Anton for this mail :
"I finally tracked it down. Turns out that each namespace in the CIM repository has a security descriptor to control access. I was able to access root\cimv2 just fine from ASP.NET and VBScript, but was getting Access Denied when trying to access the root\MicrosoftIISv2 namespace. Luckily, an error was generated in the EventViewer:
"Access to the...
2005-12-12 23:22:39 UTC in Di IIS Web Manager
