Unable to Enable Powershell Remoting

Question

Hi All

Im trying to enable powershell remoting, via "Enable-PsRemoting ", but i get the below error

remove-item : Access is denied.
At line:69 char:21

• ... remove-item -path "$securityIDPath" -recurse -force
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Remove-Item], InvalidOperationException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

Answer 1

We need to investigate the reason for the 'access denied' error with the help of some monitoring tools. I suggest you to go with 'Process Monitor' recommended by Microsoft. You can download the tool here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
Open the tool and try again to enable PSRemoting. Find out which registry key is contacted when running the cmdlet. If it says like 'ACCESS DENIED', visit the key and take the ownership of the key first and try again. Here is how you would see the details in Process Monitor application

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Answer 2

Hi @AkhilVNarayanan-2504,

Make sure the winrm service is running in all the destination systems.

Verify that there is no firewall preventing your attempts.

Answer 3

@@AkhilVNarayanan-2504 iam facing the same issue but iam unable to take ownership for that path