windows firewall remote management powershell

The crux of my problem is that Hyper-V Server is really intended to be run in an AD Domain environment. I followed the steps in these docs, but still never got it working: Installing Hyper-V server from the ISO was easy, but little did I know I’d burn several days just trying to connect to it. If I could remotely manage my lab with that and PowerShell, I’d be happy. I had played around with Hyper-V on my Windows laptop, and liked the GUI Hyper-V manager as well.

I liked the idea that it was light weight, accessible with PowerShell, and there were lots of cool Github projects that made deploying test AD domains automatic. Get into PowerShell session by typing PowerShell.A few weekends ago, I decided (because apparently I’m a masochist) that I was tired of the free version of ESXi running my home lab and decided to give Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server 2016 a try.

Configure Windows Admin Center to connect to your DNS label and specify the credentials to use another account for this connectionĪfter you provisioned the VM, login to it using Remote Desktop.

Add a DNS label to your Public IP DNS (if you’re not using you’re own DNS).

Open the port 5985 in the NSG (inbound).

Netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name = 'WinRM-HTTP' dir = in localport =5985 protocol =TCP action =allow

Open the WinRM HTTP port in the Firewall:.

Make sure the WinRM service is setup to start automatically.

I also installed the Windows Admin Center, which you can download from here.

Thanks to Scott Sutherland WinRM cheatsheet and Matt Wrock post on understand and troubleshooting WinRM.įor this demo I provisioned a VM on Azure, using the Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Core Image.

There’s plenty of articles around the internet about WinRM, but I wanted demonstrate here a quick way of getting started without researching too much. My goal was to be able to connect to it remotely, without having to remote desktop on it (the remote desktop is only a command line prompt). If you’re familiar with the Microsoft offering, Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Core does not have a UI.

Windows firewall remote management powershell