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Windows Admin Center connection problems

NILS ANDERSEN 1 Reputation point
2021-04-15T20:04:11.1+00:00

I have a small lab domain consisting of 3 windows servers (one of which is new to the domain) and a handful of Windows 10 workstations.
The servers are as follows:

WIndows server 2012 R2
Windows server 2016 (old main server)
Windows server 2019 (new main server)

I am trying to run Windows Admin Center

I added the 3 servers using the fully qualified domain names
When I try to connect to them I get

Connection error
Connecting to remote server wgfs6.wg.<aaa>.com failed with the following error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 502 from the remote WS-Management service. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

I then added the new server by IP address, which initially worked, but after updating something on it (I forget what), I now get

Connection error
Connecting to remote server x.x.x.x failed with the following error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 403 from the remote WS-Management service. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

Anybody have this experience?

Windows for business | Windows Server | Devices and deployment | Set up, install, or upgrade
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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-16T05:46:35.12+00:00

    Hello @NILS ANDERSEN

    1. Make sure IIS WinRM extension is installed. Open powershell and run command : WinRM Quickconfig.
    2. Are you using a proxy server in your environment?
      If yes, Run CMD as Administrator:
      • type the following command: netsh winhttp show proxy
      • If you can see that you have a WinHTTP proxy configured please use netsh winhttp reset proxy to turn it off.

    Best Regards
    Karlie

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  2. NILS ANDERSEN 1 Reputation point
    2021-04-15T20:05:38.03+00:00

    PS: I get the same 502 error when I try to connect to the local Windows 10 machine running Windows Admin Center

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