The WMI service or the WMI provider returned an unknown error: HRESULT 0x80041033

Issue with deployment. Tried numerous times with the same result. It domain-joins the witness server but fails with the sql-0 and sql-1 I suspect:

"message": "{\r\n \"status\": \"Failed\",\r\n \"error\": {\r\n \"code\": \"ResourceDeploymentFailure\",\r\n \"message\": \"The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.\",\r\n \"details\": [\r\n {\r\n \"code\": \"VMExtensionProvisioningError\",\r\n \"message\": \"VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'sqlAOPrepare'. Error message: \\\"DSC Configuration 'PrepareAlwaysOnSqlServer' completed with error(s). Following are the first few: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The WMI service or the WMI provider returned an unknown error: HRESULT 0x80041033 \\\".\"\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n}"

Start with the deployment error for the sqlAOPrepare VM extension and the DSC configuration named PrepareAlwaysOnSqlServer. Reproduce or inspect the failure around the WMI HRESULT 0x80041033 and determine what prevents the SQL witness and sql-0/sql-1 deployment from completing; done means the deployment no longer reports this provisioning failure.

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