Windows script enabling Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

enable_wmi.bat

:: Windows script enabling Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
:: https://gist.github.com/elektr0nisch/dd20e8eb9655e4485087d5ec3f093b7e

:: Attention! Firewall rules have to be adressed by their display name. 
:: Therefore this script is language dependent and only supports english and german at the moment.

@echo off

:: Checking administrator privilges
net session >nul 2>&1
if %errorLevel% neq 0 (
    echo This script must be run as an administrator.
    goto END
)

:: Add registry key "LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy"
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system /v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f >nul

:: Determination of system language
for /F "tokens=2 delims==" %%l in ('wmic os get OSLanguage /Value') do set LANG=%%l
if %LANG% == 1031 goto GERMAN
else goto ENGLISH

:: Allow WMI through firewall 

:GERMAN
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Windows-Verwaltungsinstrumentation (WMI)" new enable=yes >nul
goto END

:ENGLISH
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="windows management instrumentation (wmi)" new enable=yes >nul
goto END

:END
echo Done.
pause
exit /b 1