A small bug in SMO

I recently encountered what appears to be a small bug in SMO:

When accessing the SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.ManagedComputer namespace using a 32bit application (ie. Powershell.exe) from a 64-bit platform (HW & OS), SMO won't return anything for the "ServerInstances" property. If a 64bit application is used everything works just fine.

Try the following script from the 32, and 64 bit versions of PowerShell (repalce MyServer with the name of your SQL server):

32bit: %SystemRoot%\sysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
- or -
64bit: %SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

[reflection.assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91")
$mc = new-object "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.ManagedComputer" MyServer
$mc

Result when working the correct way:

ConnectionSettings : Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.WmiConnectionInfo
Services : {MSFTESQL$SQL01, MSFTESQL$SQL02, MSFTESQL$SQL03, MSFTESQL$SQL04...}
ClientProtocols : {np, sm, tcp, via}
ServerInstances : {SQL01, SQL02, SQL03, SQL04...}
ServerAliases : {}
Urn : ManagedComputer[@Name='MyServer']
Name : MyServer
Properties : {}
UserData :
State : Existing

Result when NOT working working the correct way:

ConnectionSettings : Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi.WmiConnectionInfo
Services : {MSFTESQL$SQL01, MSFTESQL$SQL02, MSFTESQL$SQL03, MSFTESQL$SQL04...}
ClientProtocols : {np, sm, tcp, via}
ServerInstances : {}
ServerAliases : {}
Urn : ManagedComputer[@Name='MyServer']
Name : MyServer
Properties : {}
UserData :
State : Existing