Server Core remote management from Windows 7 machine

Posted by Robert Koritnik on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Robert Koritnik
Published on 2010-05-28T09:11:58Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 9:12 UTC
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I've installed Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 because I would like to administer my Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core machine.

The problem that I'm getting when I try to run Server Manager is:

Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: Access is denied. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

This is what I've done so far:

  • I'm running WinRM service on both machines (Server and Window 7)
  • I've added my server to trusted hosts on my Windows 7 machine:
    winrm set winrm/config/client @{TrustedHosts="WINSRV2"}
  • I've added registry entry on Windows 7 machine:
    reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
  • I've enabled Remote Management inbound rule on server firewall using CoreConfigurator 2.0
  • both machines are in the same subnet and when I search for network machines on Windows 7 I see my server.

Question

What else should I do to make it work? I would like to run several different remote management tools against my server machine.

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