

You can of course lock these rules down to remote IPs as well.

These firewall rules seem to have some special magic to them that I haven’t put my finger on yet that allow the Remote MMC Firewall snap-in to work. Windows Firewall Remote Management (RPC-EPMAP)

My solution to this problem was to enable the built-in Firewall Rules for Remote Firewall Management so you can use MMC console: Ensure that you are not trying to connect to a remote computer with an earlier version of Windows….” “The specified computer could not be remotely managed. “There was an error opening the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security snap-in” I was seeing no blocked traffic in the Windows Firewall Logs. Moreover I could not find an easy way to see what the current firewall rules are that are applied via GPO.Īs I have disabled all of the built-in firewall rules as to lock down the Domain Controller Firewall Rules as tightly as possible, even with RPC open and the dynamic RPC range locked to specific ports but open the Windows Firewall MMC would not open. On a GUI version of Windows Server it is very easy to see what firewall rules are applied, in core… not so much, especially if you are pushing them with GPO (Group Policy).Īll of the PowerShell cmdlets and netsh advfirewall commands all seem to return the local firewall rules and not any of the Group Policy pushed firewall rules. You can check to see if WinRM is running on your server by running WinRM directly or reviewing all the listening ports on your server and checking to see if TCP port 5986 is listening for connections.As I’m migrating Domain Controllers over to Server Core one of the major issues I’ve run into is managing the Windows Firewall Rules. How do I know if my Windows Server has WinRM enabled? This can be new networking information, when a Cloud VPS is migrated to a new host or it can be security updates using Windows Updates or to install new Software as required.

Memset utilises WinRM to send new system configuration to your server when it is needed. More information can be found on the relevant section of the Microsoft site here. WinRM (Windows Remote Management), is a built in Microsoft system management component which allows configuration data as well as monitoring events to be to be exchanged between two connections, For Memset Servers this is in use with the Memset backend systems.
