Feedback on Enable-PSRemoting

[jhoneill]

Type of issue

Missing information

Feedback

As it stands the examples will not correctly enable remoting. Until the PowerShell team fixes the issue the help should also explain that

1. After enabling it is possible to use New-PSSession -EnableNetworkAccess to the local machine
2. This will only work logged on in an As Admin session and will fail using the same account in a non admin session.
3. Although the permissions to the configuration include remote-admin users, if they are not in administrators this will fail
4. To fix this First run Get-PSSessionConfiguration and note the permissions on PowerShell.7.x.y, then navigate to %windir%\system32\PowerShell\7.x.y and grant those users full control to RemotePowerShellConfig.txt

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/enable-psremoting?view=powershell-7.4

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs/blob/main/reference/7.4/Microsoft.PowerShell.Core/Enable-PSRemoting.md

Author

@sdwheeler

Document Id

9dd8106c-4ba5-ca83-805b-4541f47549ec

[sdwheeler]

@jhoneill Is there an issue open for this in the source repo?

[jhoneill]

• https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/18741

and

• https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/20180

The fix is to get the permissions on the file to match the permissions on the remoting configuration but since that doesn't seem to be happening, documenting around it seems like the best move

[sdwheeler]

We had an internal meeting about this problem. We are discussing what needs to be done to fix this. We will adjust the documentation once we have a decision.

[ehmiiz]

We had an internal meeting about this problem. We are discussing what needs to be done to fix this. We will adjust the documentation once we have a decision.

I'm happy to help if you'd like. Just toss me the details!

[sdwheeler]

Linking another related issue - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/14274