Powershell – Enable Powershell Remoting during unattended installation

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Is there a way to enable Powershell remoting (Enable-PSRemoting) during an unattended Windows Server 2008 R2 installation? Is there a setting in unattend.xml for this?

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If your on a AD Domain, the prefered way would be via GPO:

Enable Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Remote Management\WinRM Service\Allow automatic configuration of listeners
Create firewall rule inbound for Windows Remote Management

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PowerShell 2 – Enable Remoting Features Between Windows XP Machines

Right now you can't use PowerShell remoting feature on windows XP because it depends on WinRM 2.0 CTP3 that's not available for it. Support for remoting on Windows XP will be available after final build of PowerShell V2 (and WinRM 2.0).

Powershell – Enabling Powershell Remoting, Access is denied

Just ran into and solved this problem on a couple of systems. In this particular case, these two systems were not part of a domain, and the user account was not the original "Administrator" account, but rather a newer account that was also a member of the local Administrators group.

The solution came from the following blog post I wandered across: WinRM Access is Denied on Local Computer. In short, run the following from a command prompt (launched as Administrator):

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

After that, re-launch the PowerShell prompt as admin and re-run Enable-PSRemoting, that simple.

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