Enabling PowerShell Remoting via Group Policy

To enable PowerShell Remoting for multiple hosts at a time in your environment, you can use Group Policy to make the required changes. The following instructions provide detail of how to do this (screenshots here are from a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller):

• Open the Group Policy Management Console
• Create or use an existing Group Policy Object, open it, and navigate to Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative templates -> Windows Components
• Here you will find the available Group Policy settings for Windows PowerShell, WinRM and Windows Remote Shell:
• Open “Allow remote server management through WinRM” setting
• Enable the Policy and set the IPv4 and IPv6 filter values to *
• Click OK
• Navigate to Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> System Services
• Select Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) Service and set the start-up mode to Automatic
• Click OK
• You need to create a new Inbound Rule under Computer Configuration-> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security- > Inbound Rules:
• The WinRM port numbers are predefined as “Windows Remote Management”:
• With WinRM 2.0, the default http listener port is TCP 5985.
• Select “Allow the Connection”
• Close the Group Policy Editor
• Link the PowerShell Settings GPO to correct OU for testing
• Run gpupdate on your test computers, or reboot them