Sets the PowerShell remote sessions to allow remote access.

Enables the PowerShell session configurations.

Registers the PowerShell session configurations with WS-Management.

Enables the firewall exceptions for WS-Management.

Creates a listener on the default WinRM ports 5985 for HTTP traffic.

The WinRM service is started and set to automatic startup.

Since PowerShell Remoting depends on other systems to run properly, it has a few dependencies.įor example, on Windows, when you run the Enable-PSRemoting cmdlet with no parameters, it performs all of the following tasks:

When you hear about enabling PSRemoting, a lot of tasks must go on in the background to make that happen. Perhaps you saw some references to the Enable-PSRemoting PowerShell cmdlet and think once you run that, it just flips a bit somewhere. If you’re first learning about PowerShell Remoting, you may think that enabling is just a single command. Related: PowerShell Remoting: The Ultimate Guide Enabling PSRemoting Does A lot This tutorial is going to walk you through many different ways to enable PSRemoting on local and remote computers running both Windows. If you either need to test to see if PSRemoting is enabled or enable PSRemoting on Windows, this tutorial is for you.

Even though on Windows, PSRemoting comes enabled by default, it’s not enabled all of the time.

Windows 10 remote firewall management