Is the remote computer or server on the domain or is it in the P2P network?ģ. Firewall: Is it turned on the remote host? If it is, are there any rules that prevent you from enabling RD?Ģ. What do you need to do? Sure, you can just ask a fellow admin to enable RD on the remote host and wait a bit, but what if that’s something really urgent and you are to fix that issue in the middle of the night? Let’s think through what you can do in that case.īefore I start, I’d like to look at the things you should consider while enabling RD remotely:ġ. There may also be the case when you loose the access to RD on another computer for some reason, and there’s no one in the remote office who can help you. And, pretty often, they cannot count on another guy who helps them to enable Remote Desktop (RD) on the remote host. Get into PowerShell session by typing PowerShell.From day to day, admins troubleshoot issues remotely.

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 admin center server 2019