Windows error 0x80041014, -2147217388

Detailed Error Information

HRESULT analysis[1]

FlagsSeverityFailure
Reserved (R)false
OriginMicrosoft
NTSTATUSfalse
Reserved (X)false
FacilityCode4 (0x004)
NameFACILITY_ITF[1][2]
DescriptionThe source of the error code is COM/OLE Interface management.[1][2]
Error Code4116 (0x1014)

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Why does viewing VSS cause OLE error 0x80041014?

I am trying to write some digital forensics software in python, which means I need a way to access volume shadow copies on windows. I am following this article from SANS https://www.sans.org/blog/using-volume-shadow-copies-from-python, using the following block of code. import win32com.client def vss_list(self): wcd = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") wmi = wcd.ConnectServer(".", "root\cimv2") obj [...] read more
python
pywin32
win32com
volume-shadow-service

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Sources

  1. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231198.aspx
  2. winerror.h from Windows SDK 10.0.14393.0

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