Have you ever tried to enable PowerShell remoting with Enable-PSRemoting, and just got an error complaining about not being able to check the current firewall status?
On Windows 7 machines, this may be due to a bug explained here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2697738
On Windows 8/Server 2012 and higher, you may be able to fix the issue by launching a PowerShell with Administrator privileges, and then running these two commands:
PS> Enable-NetFirewallRule -Name WINRM-HTTP-In*
PS> winrm create winrm/config/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTP
The first command enables the necessary firewall rules, and the second command adds a listener to WinRM. Once done, try again:
PS C:\> Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck
Throughout this month, we'd like to point you to three awesome community-driven global PowerShell events taking place this year:
Europe: April 20-22: 3-day PowerShell Conference EU in Hannover, Germany, with more than 30+ speakers including Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette, and 60+ sessions: www.psconf.eu.
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