Server administration

Connecting to Windows Server 2019 core through WinRM and Windows Admin Center

If you’re familiar with the Microsoft offering, Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Core does not have a UI. My goal was to be able to connect to it remotely, without having to remote desktop on it (the remote desktop is only a command line prompt). There’s plenty of articles around the internet about WinRM, but I wanted demonstrate here a quick way of getting started without researching too much. Thanks to Scott Sutherland WinRM cheatsheet and Matt Wrock post on understand and troubleshooting WinRM. For this demo I provisioned a VM on Azure, using the Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Core Image. I also installed the Windows Admin Center, which you can download from here. TL;DR Open PowerShell Enable WinRM: Enable-PsRemoting -Force Make…

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