Does WMI read user information from windows credentials manager? - windows

I wanted to connect to a remote Windows cluster using WMI to read its node information. User credentials are stored in Windows Credentials Manager. But, WMI does not seem to read user credentials from Windows credentials manager.I tried with WMI Explorer tool and with the below code (C#). Any idea how to get it work?
{
ConnectionOptions Options = new ConnectionOptions();
//Options.Username = Username;
//Options.Password = Password;
Options.Authority = "ntlmdomain:";
Scope = new ManagementScope(#"\\WindowsCluster\root\cimv2", Options);
Scope.Connect();
}
I get access denied error if I do not pass username and password. I tried with all possible authentication modes including default and packet privacy.

As far as I know it does not use Windows Credential manager. You will need to fill out username and password when connecting remotely. Also, if you are connecting to that machine with a domain account then you will need to add the domain name after the colon in the authority field. Otherwise if its machine creds then don't define authority at all.
Hope this helps.

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Merry Christmas everyone !
I've installed Team Foundation Server 2010 with advanced configuration but I left the settings as default (like Service Account: NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE and others)...
All good until when I typed http://localhost:8080/tfs and there it asks me to provide username and password.
What is the default username and password ? I didn't provide any username and/or password during configuration.
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Help me please...
Thank you
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UPDATE - mine was ashutosh-pc\ashutosh and my windows password
You have set your service account to LOCAL SERVICE. Please change this to NETWORK SERVICE. The login box you are getting is not to login TFS, but to get access to your machine resources. The LOCAL SERVICE account does not have enough permissions to operate TFS.
If you don't have NETWORK SERVICE, then use a regular windows account.
See for more information the TFS 2010 Install Guide.
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