{"id":4101,"date":"2009-04-30T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2009\/04\/30\/enable-psremoting\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:12:40","slug":"enable-psremoting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/enable-psremoting\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable-PSRemoting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I installed Win7 RC build yesterday and tried to enable PS Remoting. I launched PowerShell elevated, ran Enable-PsRemoting cmdlet but it gave an \u201caccess denied\u201d error message <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

PS C:\\Windows\\system32> Enable-PSRemoting -force<\/span>
WinRM already is set up to receive requests on this machine.
Set-WSManQuickConfig : Access is denied.
At line:50 char:33
+             Set-WSManQuickConfig <<<<  -force
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Set-WSManQuickConfig], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WsManError,Microsoft.WSMan.Management.SetWSManQuickConfigCommand<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

One good thing in PowerShell help in RC is \u201cabout_Remote_Troubleshooting\u201d. It is very detailed and covers all important failure scenarios. Go through it if you face problem with enabling remoting on a box<\/span><\/p>\n

To summarize, there are few things that I had to check<\/span><\/p>\n

1.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>My machine is connected to domain.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>I am logged in as administrator <\/span><\/p>\n

3.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>PowerShell is launched elevated.<\/span><\/p>\n

4.      <\/span><\/span><\/span>My password is not blank<\/span><\/p>\n

Problem was that my domain a\/c was not an administrator on the box. Even if I launch PowerShell elevated (and give local administrator creds) it was not working. I tried logging in as local admin but Enable-PS Remoting still failed. <\/span><\/p>\n

Solution<\/strong>: I had to add my domain a\/c to administrators group and Enable-PsSession worked after that.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>If you are not an administrator, Enable-PsSession will fail even if you launch elevated. This is true for some other remoting configuration cmdlets as well e.g.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>Set-PSSessionConfiguration Microsoft.Powershell -ShowSecurityDescriptorUI<\/span><\/p>\n

Another important thing to know is \u2013 \u201cYou must run PowerShell elevated if you\u2019re connecting to the same box (localhost)\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

Osama Sajid<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> <\/p>\n

<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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