We are in the process of standing up a new Jenkins server on Windows 2012 R2, our current Jenkins master is on 2008 R2 and happily connects to my build slaves via
"Let Jenkins control this windows slave as a windows service" so I know its not a client configuration issue.

the new server is sitting behind a infrastructure firewall, and all the correct ports 135 137 138 139 445 JLNP port etc.... have all been opened up

I've even disabled the windows Firewall to no avail.

Also I cant create a slave node on another server within the infrastructure network bubble

I know this is a pretty common error but, I have tried everything listed in the how to pages and still come up blank.

ERROR: Message not found for errorCode: 0x8001FFFF
org.jinterop.dcom.common.JIException: Message not found for errorCode: 0x8001FFFF
at org.jinterop.dcom.core.JIComServer.call(JIComServer.java:876)
at org.jinterop.dcom.core.JIComServer.call(JIComServer.java:825)
at org.jinterop.dcom.core.JIComServer.addRef_ReleaseRef(JIComServer.java:909)
at org.jinterop.dcom.core.JISession.releaseRef(JISession.java:730)
at org.jinterop.dcom.core.JIComServer.createInstance(JIComServer.java:746)
at org.jvnet.hudson.wmi.WMI.connect(WMI.java:61)
at hudson.os.windows.ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher.launch(ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher.java:218)
at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer$1.call(SlaveComputer.java:230)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:465)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:457)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:666)
at java.nio.channels.SocketChannel.open(SocketChannel.java:184)
at org.jinterop.dcom.transport.JIComTransport.attach(JIComTransport.java:98)
at rpc.Stub.attach(Stub.java:104)
at org.jinterop.dcom.core.JIComServer.call(JIComServer.java:860)
... 11 more