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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 -...

I have been doing some testing on enabling WinRM via group policy, being that WinRM is the service that Powershell v2 sets up it remoting capabilities. Here are the GPO settings that you need to configure WinRM .... set the winrm service to auto start Computer Configuration \ Policies \ Windows Settings \ Security Settings \ System Services Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)  set Startup Mode to Automatic start the service incorporated in to the above - you may need a restart. create a winrm listener Computer Configuration / Policies / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Remote Management (WinRM) / WinRM Service / Allow automatic configuration of listeners IPv4 filter: * * is listen on all addresses, or if you only want a particular IP address to respond use an iprange eg 10.1.1.1-10.1.1.254 - don't forget that this IP range has to be valid for all hosts that fall in the scope of the GPO you are creating.  You can use 1...