This is what happens when I try and connect to Powershell on my remote machine:
PS C:\Users\Jonathan> Test-WSMan -ComputerName 54.228.XX.XX
Test-WSMan : The WinRM client cannot complete the operation within the time specified. Check if the machine name is val
id and is reachable over the network and firewall exception for Windows Remote Management service is enabled.
At line:1 char:11
+ Test-WSMan <<<< -ComputerName 54.228.XX.XX
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (54.228.XX.XX:String) [Test-WSMan], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WsManError,Microsoft.WSMan.Management.TestWSManCommand
On my remote computer, I've confirmed that WinRM is running:
PS C:\Users\Administrator> net start winrm
The Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) service is starting.
The Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) service was started successfully.
I've confirmed that it is listening:
PS C:\Users\Administrator> winrm e winrm/config/listener
Listener
Address = *
Transport = HTTP
Port = 5985
Hostname
Enabled = true
URLPrefix = wsman
CertificateThumbprint
ListeningOn = 10.35.XXX.XXX, 127.0.0.1...
and I've chosen to trust all hosts:
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "*" -Force
and finally, I've allowed inbound connections on port 5985. Have I missed something?!
The unfortunate solution for us, was to start from scratch and reinstall windows. After spending a week wasting our time, that fixed it.
The fix in my case was to open an elevated shell and run:
netsh winhttp reset proxy
Note: this worked even though netsh winhttp show proxy showed that my machine was configured for "Direct access (no proxy server)." No reboot was required.
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I was trying to establish a remote connection to another system and execute some basic commands.
Below are the steps that I have done :
Configured the remote machine to accept Shell commands - Enable-PSRemoting –
Force
Tested the configuration on remote machine - Test-WsMan COMPUTERNAME.
Executed the following commands on the host machine :
1.Invoke-Command -ComputerName COMPUTERNAME -ScriptBlock { Get-ChildItem C:\ } -credential USERNAME.
2.Invoke-Command -ComputerName COMPUTERNAME -ScriptBlock { Get-ChildItem C:\ } -credential $Credentials.
3.Invoke-Command -ComputerName COMPUTERNAME -ScriptBlock { Get-ChildItem C:\ }
In all the cases, we were getting access denied error :
Access is denied. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. + CategoryInfo : OpenError: (:) [], PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PSSessionStateBroken
From MSDN:
Start Windows PowerShell as an administrator by right-clicking the Windows PowerShell shortcut and selecting Run As Administrator.
The WinRM service is confi gured for manual startup by default. You must change the startup type to Automatic and start the service on each computer you want to work with. At the PowerShell prompt, you can verify that the WinRM service is running using the following command:
get-service winrm
The value of the Status property in the output should be “Running”.
To configure Windows PowerShell for remoting, type the following command:
Enable-PSRemoting –force
In many cases, you will be able to work with remote computers in other domains. However, if the remote computer is not in a trusted domain, the remote computer might not be able to authenticate your credentials. To enable authentication, you need to add the remote computer to the list of trusted hosts for the local computer in WinRM. To do so, type:
winrm s winrm/config/client '#{TrustedHosts="RemoteComputer"}'
Here, RemoteComputer should be the name of the remote computer, such as:
winrm s winrm/config/client '#{TrustedHosts="CorpServer56"}'
You should check if the winrm is running. Also add your remote hosts to the trusted hosts list (or your local machine).
Hope that helps.
I have two Windows 7 Pro systems, one host system and one in a VM one the host system. I am trying to create a New PSSession on the host system to control the guest, both of which run Powershell 4.0.
As we have a DHCP setup in the office the first thing I do is establish the IP adress of each. Then I run the code below on both machines -
Set-Item wsman:\localhost\client\trustedhosts "$relevantIP" -Force
I then test that the systems are ready using WSMan on the host -
Test-WSMan $remoteIP
wsmid : http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/identity/1/wsmanidentity.xsd
ProtocolVersion : http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd
ProductVendor : Microsoft Corporation
ProductVersion : OS: 0.0.0 SP: 0.0 Stack: 3.0
All this works perfectly well. At this point I used to create a new PSSession using the following
$credObject =
$Host.ui.PromptForCredential(
"Need credentials",
"Please enter password for the following IP $remoteIP",
$remoteUsername,
""
)
$remoteSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName $remoteIP -Credential $credObject
New-PSSession : [10.141.114.91] Connecting to remote server
10.141.114.91 failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request. Default authentication may be used
with an IP address under the following conditions: the transport is
HTTPS or the destination is in the TrustedHosts list, and explicit
credentials are provided. Use winrm.cmd to configure TrustedHosts.
Note that computers in the TrustedHosts list might not be
authenticated. For more information on how to set TrustedHosts run
the following command: winrm help config. For more information, see
the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. At line:1 char:18
+ $remoteSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName "10.141.114.91" -Credential "SESA40 ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession],
PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotUseIPAddress,PSSessionOpenFailed
I have no idea why it has started doing this when trying to connect to the VM from the host system. I can create a new PSSession on the host machine from within the guest but no longer the other way around.
The error message says that "Default
authentication may be used with an IP address under the following conditions: ... the destination is in the TrustedHosts list and explicit credentials are provided." I have already added the correspoding IP to each WSMan TrustedHosts fields and provide explicit credentials.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am scratching my head trying to think of what could be wrong.
Update
After following the suggestion of one commentor I tried using different authentification methods.
$remoteSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName "10.141.114.91" -Credential "Test" -ErrorAction Stop -Authentication Basic
The WinRM client cannot process the request. Unencrypted traffic is currently
disabled in the client configuration. Change the client configuration and try the request again.
So I ran set-item WSMan:\localhost\Client\allowunencrypted $true on both machines. Now trying to get a PSSession gives the error
Get-PSSession -ComputerName "10.141.114.91" -Credential "Test" -Authentication Basic
The WinRM client cannot process the request. If the authentication scheme is
different from Kerberos, or if the client computer is not joined to a domain, then HTTPS transport must be used or the destination machine must be added to the TrustedHosts configuration setting.
** Update 2 **
In case anyone has the same problem and comes across this - my problem turned out to be a combination of a network fault and then with my playing around somehow creating a list of IP addresses for wsman:\localhost\client\trustedhosts which missed a comma between IP's.
Enter-PSSession command works on remote PC with port 5985, but whenever I specify the port 5986 (HTTPS), it shows the following error:
Enter-PSSession : Connecting to remote server localhost failed with the
following error message : The client cannot connect to the destination
specified in the request. Verify that the service on the destination is
running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for
the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS
or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following
command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service:
"winrm quickconfig". For more information, see the
about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:1
+ Enter-PSSession -ComputerName localhost -Port 5986
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (localhost:String) [Enter-PSSession], PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CreateRemoteRunspaceFailed
I have tried to enable port 5986 in firewall and even completely disabled the firewall but still can't solve the problem. So, how can I enable port 5986 for PSSession?
I was faced with this problem.
Check firewall rule. Port 5986 must be allowed for inbound connections.
Are you created certificate on server? If not then...
Run in PowerShell as Administrator:
New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName <your_server_dns_name_or_whatever_you_like> -CertStoreLocation Cert:\LocalMachine\My
and save returned thumbprint. Thumbprint will you need.
Are you configured WinRM on server? If not then... Run cmd.exe as Administrator and run it:
winrm create winrm/config/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS #{Hostname=”<your_server_dns_name_or_whatever_you_like>”; CertificateThumbprint=”<certificate_thumbprint_from powershell>”}`
Try login to server:
$so = New-PsSessionOption –SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName <ip_address_or_dns_name_of_server> -Credential <local_admin_username> -UseSSL -SessionOption $so
Also may be you need configure winrm for client. Run cmd.exe as Administrator and run it:
winrm set winrm/config/client #{TrustedHosts="<ip_remote_server>"}
I've created a new VM in Windows Azure to use to act as a host to learn a bit of Powershell Remoting. After the VM was created I RDP'd onto the box and enabled remoting via the following command:
Enable-PSRemoting
I confirmed both prompts with 'a' replies and it finished without errors. If I run
Get-PSSessionConfiguration
I can see that three endpoints (?) have been set up. In the Azure portal I can see that the Powershell port is open - both 5986 is open as a public and private port.
I've added the public IP address of the machine to my hosts file, but when I try the following:
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName AZURESERVERNAME
I get an error:
Enter-PSSession : Connecting to remote server AZURESERVERNAME failed
with the following error message : A specified logon session does not
exist. It may already have been terminated. For more information, see
the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. At line:1 char:1
+ Enter-PSSession -ComputerName AZURESERVERNAME
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (AZURESERVERNAME:String) [Enter-PSSession],
PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CreateRemoteRunspaceFailed
I've also tried setting all hosts as trused as follows:
cd wsman::localhost\client
Set-Item .\TrustedHosts *
Restart-Service WinRM
But that doesn't seemed to have helped either.
Is there anything else I need to do to get this working?
Thanks
OK, figured this out thanks to the awesome Secrets of Powershell Remoting ebook. Looks like you must add the machine directly to the TrustedHosts via IP address:
Set-Item -Path WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value '11.22.33.44'
Then use that IP address and specify credentials in the Enter-PSSession:
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName 11.22.33.44 -Credential 11.22.33.44\username
You should then get a prompt for your password and voila! :)
I've successfully created a SharePoint farm in Azure using the scripts from Automated-Deployment-of-SharePoint-2013-with-Windows-Azure-PowerShell
On that page there are steps that configure PowerShell to work with Azure
Set-ExecutionPolicy ByPass
Enable-PSRemoting
Enable-WSManCredSSP -role client -delegatecomputer "*.cloudapp.net"
$regKey = "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Credssp\PolicyDefaults\AllowFreshCredentialsDomain"
Set-ItemProperty $regKey -Name WSMan -Value "WSMAN/*.cloudapp.net"
Get-AzureSubscription -ExtendedDetails
You may also need to do this
Run GPEdit.msc You must also enable delegating of fresh credentials
using group policy editor on your client machine. Computer
Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Credentials
Delegation and then change the state of "Allow Delegating Fresh
Credentials with NTLM-only server authentication" to "Enabled." Its
default state will say, "Not configured."
In the Add Servers sections add the following.
WSMAN/*.cloudapp.net
Am a bit confused w/ remote executing a powershell command. I have a test server (Win 2k8-R2-SP1) called ServerA, which has powershell remoting enabled correctly. From my dev machine (Win 2k8-R2-SP1), am able to remote execure powershell commands correctly.
But, when I try to execute the same command from a different server called ServerB (Win 2k8-R2), I get the following error
[ServerA] Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM.
If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (:) [], PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PSSessionStateBroken
All three machines are in the same domain. My confusion is that from my dev machine, I am perfectly able to connect to ServerA and execute the command.
Will the fact that ServerB does not have SP1, make a difference? Please advise. I am using the same domain account which has admin rights on all 3 servers.
And the command that I am trying is
Invoke-Command -ComputerName ServerA -ScriptBlock {Get-UICulture}.
Please help.
Thanks
Run winrm quickconfig or Enable-PSRemoting -force from ServerB.
Verify service is running with get-service winrm
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff700227.aspx
Also, run this from your local dev box:
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "*" -Force
I've had this same problem as well, on a machine that was working for remote powershell in the past. In my case the solution was to clear the Security Log. It was full, and I believe this was preventing powershell from making a proper secure connection.
The following fixed my problem:
You either have to empty your iplisten list which can be checked using the following CMD command:
netsh http show iplist
or to add the loop back address to it if there is any other addresses:
netsh http add iplisten 127.0.0.1
I was having this same issue and resolved in the following way. Running
winrm quickconfig
returned the below error.
winrm : WSManFault
At line:1 char:1
+ winrm quickconfig
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (WSManFault:String) [], RemoteException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
Message
ProviderFault
WSManFault
Message = WinRM firewall exception will not work since one of the network connection types on this machine is set to Public. Change the network connection type to either Domain or Private and try again.
Error number: -2144108183 0x80338169
WinRM firewall exception will not work since one of the network connection types on this machine is set to Public. Change the network connection type to either Domain or Private and try again.
In my case, this was a virtual NIC for a hypervisor service I was running on my machine. Once I changed this to Private, winrm quickconfig ran without error. I still had issues connecting to some machines and getting the same failure as described in this thread. To resolve, I checked for and started the winrm service where it was stopped.
get-service -ComputerName computer -Name winrm
Status Name DisplayName
------ ---- -----------
Stopped winrm Windows Remote Management (WS-Manag...
get-service -ComputerName computer -Name winrm | Start-Service
To save having to enable WinRM on every single server you manage, you can run this batch script:
Requirements:
A text file with all the servers you wish to enable WinRM on
PSExec in your Windows\System32 directory, downloaded from: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/pstools.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Powershell on the server you're connecting to
Usage: EnablePSRemoting.bat PCs.txt
#echo off
for /f %%f in (%1) do (
psexec.exe \\%%f -accepteula -h -d -s powershell.exe "enable-psremoting -force"
echo Enabled on %%f
)
I have been looking for the answer for days and I found the issue;
It seems that the IIS 7 .NET Extensibility component was not installed causing this issue. We have a 2012 R2 Exchange 2010 server;
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd421841(v=exchg.80).aspx
I installed it by entering this in powershell;
See here the prerequisites for Exchange 2010.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354(v=exchg.141)
This Exchange server of ours has only the mailbox role, the other is still CAS and HUB transport;
So we need this command;
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Features,RSAT-Clustering,Web-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Server,Web-Windows-Auth -Restart
The part of Web-Net-Ext installed the IIS 7.NET Extensibility component.
No need to restart.
Just my 2 cents, maybe this helps someone else :-)
In my case, WinRM was not configured correctly. This is what I used to enable it remotely:
$x=Get-WmiObject -ComputerName "<computer name>" -Namespace "root\cimv2" -Class "Win32_Process" -List
$x.Create('C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Command "& C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Command {Enable-PSRemoting}"',$null,$null)