Enabling Powershell Remoting and Remote Administration - Windows 2008 R2 Server Core Following on from my post Enable WinRM via Group Policy , there as some follow on tasks to ensure server core is manageable via powershell and server manager. Add Firewall Rule To start with, to allow GUI remote management of the event viewer, another firewall rule needs to be added : Computer Configuration / Policies / Windows Settings / Security Settings / Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Create an Inbound Rule allowing the predefined group 'Remote Event Log Management' Install powershell and packs Next, as server core is the only version of Windows Server 2008 R2 that does not install Powershell V2 by default, we need to install powershell and which ever cmdlet management pack we need. In this case I am only going to install the server manager and AD cmdlets. Winrs -r:$dc.name Ocsetup MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell Winrs -r:$dc.name Ocsetup ServerManager-PSH-Cmdlets Winrs -...
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