Sunday, 21 April 2013

Remote Server Manager on Server 2008 R2 Core

I have a long standing Hyper-V test environment running on Server 2008 R2 core. Recently decided to try Server Manager remotely from a Windows 7 machine to manage the 2008 Core.

Both machines are in the same workgroup and successfully configured for Remote Desktop. The Remote Server Administration Tool for Windows 7 are installed.

Run Server Manager on Windows 7 then try connecting to Hyper-V server and I get this error:

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TechNet: Remote Management with Server Manager

On Hyper-V Server

Ensured that I had done the following

  • From sconfig.cmd
  • selected 4) Configures Remote Management the server 
  • then 3) Allow Server Manager Remote Management

this had no effect on the error there was no need to reboot the server as I had already installed PowerShell but did so anyway but still could not connect with Server Manager

On Windows 7 Client

net start winrm

winrm set winrm/config/client @{TrustedHosts="RemoteComputerName"}

Replace RemoteComputerName with server name

This failed on initial attempt

I should have run the following command first because machines where in workgroup not domain.

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Running the winrm command again and Server Manger could connect to my Hyper-V server.

Still got errors on Server Manager components but a step forward.

Device Manager Error

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Resolution Enable Remote Access to Device Manager

See this very useful blog post

Enabling Remote Access to Device Manager on Server Core

Virtual Disk Management Error

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Resolution Windows 7 Firewall

Inbound rules on Windows 7 needed to be set

Remote Volume Management - Virtual Disk Service (RPC)

Remote Volume Management - Virtual Disk Service Loader (RPC)

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